Last I checked, the Snail Darter was in the Tennesseee River basin (not that I agree with the Endangered Species Act).
I believe that was the first time the environuts used their power to save a animal from extinction. It caused such a ruckus in the MSM that I don't think they have used the EPA in the East very much if at all.
Can you think of any? I can name several in Texas including:
1. a cave-residing spider (stopping development in the Hill country outside of San Antonio)
2. some snail darters in a San Marcos spring (which had completely dried up in the 50s)to 'protect' the spring, causing the underground water supply of several million people to be limited. Cost around 5 billion for those 23 minnows to be protected.
3.stopping farmers/ranchers from removing cedar trees from their land, a tree which is not native to Texas and migrated from Mexico and robs the soil of needed water to protect a bird which only nests in that certain tree which is not native to Texas but migrated north from Mexico along with the tree in the last century.