https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/353
H.Con.Res.353 - Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should assume a strong leadership role in implementing the decisions made at the Earth Summit by developing a national strategy to implement Agenda 21 and other Earth summit agreements through domestic policy and foreign policy, by cooperating with all countries to identify and initiate further agreements to protect the global environment, and by supporting and participating in a high-level United Nations Sustainable Development Commission.
Sponsor:Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-5] (Introduced 08/05/1992)Committees:House - Foreign Affairs | Senate - Foreign RelationsLatest Action:Senate - 10/08/1992 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (All Actions)
The Delta Smelt
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/10/endangering_people_to_protect.html
October 15, 2009
Endangering People to Protect Fish
By Janet Levy
California, the nation’s largest producer of fruits, nuts, vegetables, livestock and dairy products, ranks fifth in the world as a supplier of food and agricultural commodities. Cash receipts totaled more than $36.6 billion in 2007. By comparison, Coca Cola’s 2008 revenue was $32 billion.
The state provides more than half of the nation’s fruits, nuts and vegetables using more than 25% of California’s landmass for agricultural production. The Central Valley accounts for more than half of that area. A paragon of conservation and modern irrigation technology, California agriculture - comprised of many small and family-owned and operated farms - is almost completely dependent on irrigation for its water needs.
Water in the Central Valley shifted from farming toward fish in 1992, when U.S. Congressman George Miller (D-Martinez), a close associate and advisor to the current speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, co-authored the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA). Coincidentally, two of Miller’s former chiefs of staff, John Lawrence and Dan Beard, now serve in Nancy Pelosi’s office.
The CVPIA reduced water for Central Valley farming from 3.5 million acre-feet to 2 million acre-feet annually, a 43% reduction and allocated it for wildlife habitats. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) now had authority to control the water supply by diverting water from farmers to fish and wildlife habitats. As a result, Central Valley farmers got less water at higher prices. Using the Endangered Species Act to buttress and justify its actions, FWS grossly expanded federal control of California resources, unilaterally deciding who got how much water in the state. FWS studies and decisions were made without any independent oversight and verification from the scientific community at large.
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Limiting food production is an ideal way to undermine a nation’s food supply and usher in public control of a nation’s wealth. Food can then be sold at “fair” prices set by the government according to standardized health and environmental standards. Healthy free market competition that encourages product diversity and innovation is thus replaced by a government system of equitable distribution. That restrictive water policies ensuring greater control of property usage and the food supply coincided with the launching of the Gorbachev Foundation’s American presence is cause for grave concern.