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ENVIRONMENTALISTS DESCRIBE THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AS AN ECOLOGICAL GODSEND, BUT MANY IN CONGRESS THINK OF IT AS AN ECONOMIC MONSTER. THIS WEEK MARKED THE START OF A FIGHT OVER REAUTHORIZATION OF THE LAW THAT PROTECTS THE HABITATS OF RARE ANIMALS AND PLANTS. NPR'S JOHN NIELSEN REPORTS ON HOW THE ACT IS LIKELY TO BE CHANGED, AND WHY THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS AREN'T LIKELY TO LIKE IT.

President Bush ruffled lots of feathers weeks ago by backing away from the Kyoto global warming treat and delaying rules limiting arsenic in drinking water. NPR's John Nielsen reports that Mr. Bush's 2001 federal budget contains a quieter but no less pointed attack on Clinton environmental policies.

NPR's Nina Totenberg previews arguments in today's Supreme Court case, which poses a fundamental challenge to federal regulatory powers. At issue is whether Congress acted within the Constitution, when it ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the Clean Air Act of 1970 by setting clean air standards based on public health. (8:44).

China has taken dramatic steps to fight climate change, including shutting major coal power plants. But now it plans to build hundreds of coal plants abroad.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center, about water resources and environmental concerns in the extremely arid region.

The New York state attorney general's office detailed multiple incidents of harassment or inappropriate comments made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and said he created a "hostile work environment."

Lebanon is suffering from environmental devastation. With activists alleging the government is failing to regulate the polluters, some Lebanese citizens are taking matters into their own hands.

Autism rates have risen sharply across the United States over the last two decades, but services and support available to those on the spectrum have not…

There are several dimensions to the booming energy market. Steve Inskeep talks to Sarah Ladislaw, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about energy market trends.

The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?