Bush administration wants changes to Endangered Species Act

AFP ^ | Aug 11

[Devilinbaggypants]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The administration of US President George W. Bush has proposed revisions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) so that the law can not be used to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases.

The new regulations would reduce reviews by government scientists that have been mandatory whenever federal agencies propose projects such as dams or highways that could threaten endangered species...

[Devilinbaggypants]

What the heck is it with polar bears anyway...they've been eating eskimos for thousands of years so you'd think they'd be ready to get rid of them!

[davidlachnicht]

[Piquaboy]

If people do not get over this GW BS I am going to scream.
When I was a youngster many years ago we were told that wer were going into an ice age. I must have missed it.

[vaudine]

Bush should have been on this six years ago. Too little, too late.

vaudine

[wildbill]

One little known provision of the proposed changes is that permission would be granted to produce oil from pelts of endangered species when they expire from global warming.

[Devilinbaggypants]

I agree way to little way to late!

[AuntB]

“Bush should have been on this six years ago. Too little, too late.”

Many tried years ago to get him on board to do something about the ESA....like dump the entire mess.

[popdonnelly]

This should have been done thirty years ago. Prepare yourself for the great howl from the environmentalists.

[zek157]

What is the problem? Do they want to add Conservatives to the list, or let them die off?

[Devilinbaggypants]

I can hear them whining as we post!

[Roos_Girl]

I heard a short news segment about this on the radio this morning. This segment said that it leaves it to the local agencies to make regulations and not rely on federal scientists recommendations. I admit I haven’t done any further research into the real deal, but my first thought was this is a mistake; not that the ESA should go as a whole, but leaving it to locals can sometimes be more severe. You get a couple people on local governing board that really have an extreme environmental agenda and that’s a whole lot of trouble.

[Piquaboy]

Let them die off, I guess.

[bert]

We can have no change to settled law...... the whine

[bert]

The ratio of eskimos to polar bears has been climbing and thus endangering the polar bears. The Eskimos are enriched by the income from oil.

Oil is bad
qed

[Tzimisce]

F**k you. We’re libs. You don’t tell us what to do.

-The American left

[Devilinbaggypants]

Good point...I live here in Austin Tx and there are several like that here...but without the ESA act...which is what they argue they wouldn’t have much of a leg to stand on!

[Joe 6-pack]

"One little known provision of the proposed changes is that permission would be granted to produce oil from pelts of endangered species when they expire from global warming."

That's really not far from the way we used to actually get most of our oil...

[Flycatcher]

Maybe Bush should have advised Kempthorne of this about three months ago when the Dept of the Interior approved the listing of the polar bear as threatened.

As other FReepers have said: Too little, too late.

[Devilinbaggypants]

I hope that was an attempt at sarcasm...because if it's not you just proved my point that liberalism is a mental disorder!

[TheThinker]

Bush is playing chess again. He forces showdowns like this when Americans are really angry about an issue. It also goes hand in hand with drilling. People are fed up with high gas prices and are more likely to be irritated being lectured about greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a brilliant piece of stagemanship and timing. I really hope it works but in the meantime can conservative cynics get off the president’s back and start pounding the libs on this? What, did you think Bush’s accomplishments thus far have been luck?

[DrDeb]

THANK YOU for your rational, intelligent analysis!

[TheThinker]

There’s something else about Bush, no that we are at this important showdown. It’s that he doesn’t telegraph his moves. Once he does that the media is all over him or any Republican president ready to undo his plans. Bush relies on conservatives to see his design. He assumes conservatives are smarter than the libs and they are when they want to be!

[Flycatcher]

in the meantime can conservative cynics get off the president’s back and start pounding the libs on this?

Good point. To list the polar bear as threatened because global warming models predict (falsely) a change in its Arctic habitat is a bald-faced liberal position.

I agree. The libs responsible for this should be "pounded" for it. Who would they be again?

[Carry_Okie]

There's no way a Slave Party Congress will give him that and Bush knows it. This is just bogus grandstanding.

He could have got this four years ago and didn't ask.

[American in Israel]

Green house gas is not an endangered species.

Fascist Democrats will use anything for power.

I am for repealing the endangered species act and replacing it with a conservation corps for breeding endangered species and returning them to the wild.

[wildbill]

“That’s really not far from the way we used to actually get most of our oil...”

Republicans are ‘back to the future’ kind of folks.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[TheThinker]

I agree. The libs responsible for this should be "pounded" for it. Who would they be again?

Liberal democrats who have shoved this global warming crap down our throats for years instead of looking after American interests. I say we aim high. Let's "pound" Pelosi. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Reid is another one. If one or both get knocked out of Congress, it would be a great blow to the global warmers and the radical environmentalists. Plus, the country would be a whole lot safer and more prosperous.

[Flycatcher]

Let's "pound" Pelosi. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

Depends on what you mean by "pound." ;)

[GWMcClintock]

“Prepare yourself for the great howl from the environmentalists.”

Before or after the howl they’ll raise if we FINALLY start drilling oil?

[TheThinker]

Pound this, hit that. You know what I mean. Of course, I never thought of seducing Pelosi. Any volunteers?

[pabianice]

Who will save the endangered Whistling Turtle?!

[smokingfrog]

ping