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[20 Jul 2005|03:50am] |
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Who needs wildlife anyway????? I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PROPOSED LEGISLATION WOULD DESTROY ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), a longtime foe of the Endangered
Species Act (ESA), is about to introduce a bill that will
dramatically alter the reach of the act. Titled the Threatened
and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005, the Pombo bill has
infuriated environmental groups, who have dubbed it the
"Wildlife Extinction Bill."
ESA is in many ways the underpinning of the entire structure of
America's environmental protection system. The Pombo bill would
actually repeal ESA entirely in 2015. [1]
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[20 Jul 2005|03:52am] |
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Where the hell did this idiot, Rep. Pombo, grow up that he doesn't think there is a need to save the wildlife?????
PROPOSED ENDANGERED SPECIES BILL RESCINDS SOUND SCIENCE
In addition to the dramatic crippling of the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) examined in yesterday's BushGreenwatch, Rep. Richard
Pombo's proposed Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act
of 2005, would do other harms as well.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a nationwide policy to
protect threatened species from unregulated taking (hunting,
harming, or harassing). The Pombo bill would prohibit such
protection; instead it would require the agency to issue
separate regulations for each species, creating a bureaucratic
nightmare for the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). [1]
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