July 13, 1989 – The American burying beetle was listed as
endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. Only two
populations — one in eastern Oklahoma and one on a New England
island — were known to exist, and only two live specimens had
been located over the span of a decade. September 27, 1991 – The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a federal recovery plan
for the American burying beetle. July 26, 2011 – The U.S. House
of Representatives passed a bill speeding a decision on the
Keystone XL pipeline, regardless of whether proper analysis had
been done on its environmental impacts — including potentially
devastating habitat for the American burying beetle and numerous
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