Critics of the Endangered Species Act often couch their concerns in terms of the damage that it does to specific industries. Speaking at a hearing on the law last year, Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming went through a laundry list of economic interests he said were being harmed by the 1973 law. “States, counties,…

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