Posted on 12/09/2016 5:38:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
Eighteen states have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over Final Rules that expand the definition of “critical habitat” to include areas that are currently unoccupied by any threatened or endangered species.
The Final Rules, Listing Endangered and Threatened Species and Designating Critical Habitat, which were published in the Federal Register on February 11 and went into effect March 14, expand the definition of “critical habitat” to include areas in which “species presence or habitats are ephemeral in nature, [or] species presence is difficult to establish through surveys (e.g. when a plant’s ‘presence’ is sometimes limited to a seed bank).”
“The Final Rules are an unlawful attempt to expand regulatory authority and control over State land and waters,” argues the multi-state lawsuit, which was filed November 29th in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, and the National Marine Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange. …
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Let’s win this one....
Let’s win ‘em ALL and have President trump undo ALL of the idiotic crap to boot!
I wonder if there would be a chance that the entire Endangered Species Act could be repealed?
So what took em so long?
Fed Gov’t alphabet agencies making ch1t up? Whoda guessed?
Then... start the process of sending the cheaters to jail.
Agenda 21
the ‘critical habitat’ may be those forested areas that Hillary roams looking for folks who want to have ‘selfies’ taken with her. H’mmmm, I wonder if she charges them a fee for the privilege of the ‘selfie with Hillie?’ Most likely they have to make a donation to the Clintoon Fundation.
Either cancel this federal land grab or abolish the EPA completely. If this agency was created by an executive order by Nixon, then Trump could abolish it easily.
How about that spotted owl hoax? Bring jobs back to Oregon!
A reflection on how we are, soon to be were governed by the cliff leapers of the left, and how we would have been governed had the wicked witch of the left won instead of Trump.
It was/is not for any other reason these sorts burden us with their insane, worthless issues than control by a warped minority who cannot otherwise realize their vision of this World.
How about that spotted owl hoax? Bring jobs back to Oregon!
It started in my neighborhood on the Olympic Peninsula.
While we’re at it, we need to tear down those “UN World Heritage Site” signs that infers that the UN has some claim to the land.
What?
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