The Senate Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, as part of the Environment and Public Works Committee, held a hearing on several wildlife-related bills today. One piece of legislation, S. 357 the Wildlife Disease Emergency Act of 2011, was of particular interest to the National Environmental Coalition... [Continue Reading]

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Invasive species are a harmful subset of non-native, introduced species that adversely affect native plants and animals, change how ecosystems work, carry diseases to wildlife, plants, or people, or cause other damage. Increasing globalization of our economy, with its extensive shipment of goods, brings...