President Obama, put BP in receivership

Article on BP by Robert Reich

On November 11 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Brown Pelican, a species almost brought to extinction by the pesticide DDT, was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act because its populations had rebounded.

Dry but fascinating reading: The delisting under “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removal of the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife”.