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Lawmakers, Lobbyists and the Administration Join Forces To Overhaul the Endangered Species Act (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Endangered Species Act, which for 45 years has safeguarded fragile wildlife while blocking ranching, logging and oil drilling on protected habitats, is coming under attack from lawmakers, the White House and industry on a scale not seen in decades, driven partly by fears that the Republicans will lose ground in November's midterm elections. In the past two weeks, more than two dozen pieces of legislation, policy initiatives and amendments designed to weaken the law have been either introduced or voted on in Congress or proposed by the Trump administration.
The actions included a bill to strip protections from the gray wolf in Wyoming and along the western Great Lakes; a plan to keep the sage grouse, a chicken-size bird that inhabits millions of oil-rich acres in the West, from being listed as endangered for the next decade; and a measure to remove from the endangered list the American burying beetle, an orange-flecked insect that has long been the bane of oil companies that would like to drill on the land where it lives. [...] The new push to undo the wildlife protection law comes as Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, and is led by a president who has made deregulation -- the loosening of not only environmental protections but banking rules, car fuel efficiency standards and fair housing enforcement -- a centerpiece of his administration.
The actions included a bill to strip protections from the gray wolf in Wyoming and along the western Great Lakes; a plan to keep the sage grouse, a chicken-size bird that inhabits millions of oil-rich acres in the West, from being listed as endangered for the next decade; and a measure to remove from the endangered list the American burying beetle, an orange-flecked insect that has long been the bane of oil companies that would like to drill on the land where it lives. [...] The new push to undo the wildlife protection law comes as Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, and is led by a president who has made deregulation -- the loosening of not only environmental protections but banking rules, car fuel efficiency standards and fair housing enforcement -- a centerpiece of his administration.
republicans gotta sneak all this shit in now, while they can. the hell with the environment, the hell with healthcare, the hell with everything. the only thing that matters is the cash under the table and what their "donors" want.
Whenever I travel overseas, the thing I hear most is people from other countries complaining that they're not able to buy products from American craftsmen and artisans. After that, they say they wish they could contract herpes.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yeah! lets make that piece of land into an unlivable wasteland as well. Lobbying oil companies must really know the best! We really need to pump all that oil, because we haven't got enough C02 yet. /s
These "majestic" birds are mostly carrion eaters, stink accordingly, and aren't particularly intelligent or interesting.
So ... perfect as the bird to represent the US?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You people seem to assume that this act's list of endangered species actually is built upon sound science.
So a review of this is certainly a good idea.
That being said, we all know what interests drive this so I don't expect a sensible outcome either...
Of course it was!! Heretic!
One party is the party of sweet reason, the other is the party of eeeeeevil. Didn't you know that?
(The sweet reason party is the one that doesn't believe that a sexual species actually has distinct sexes, BTW. Or that the brain is affected by genetics. It can get confusing ...)
Were you complaining about this topic just as heatedly when on Obama's first term, the Dems had the presidency and majority in both house and were ramrodding Obamacare (we have to pass it before we know what's in it) through the system with no ability to check by the other party?
I"m just wanting to know if you're being fair....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........