Dr. Michael Camp (PhD, ’17), assistant professor and political papers archivist at the University of West Georgia, recently published an article for SLATE urging the incoming Biden administration to restore the Endangered Species Act. Camp is an environmental historian who published his first book, Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo, with the University of Pittsburg Press in 2019. Read an excerpt of the SLATE piece below along with the full article: “The Biden Administration Should Restore the Endangered Species Act to Full Strength.”

“As written, the ESA is a robust law with strong protections for endangered species, and doing away with the Trump changes would return the law’s impressive power to its previous state.“