Posted on 09/30/2011 12:07:41 PM PDT by Red Steel
BILLINGS, Mont. - The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark
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key Republicans vowed Thursday to press forward with their plans to put the brakes on a law they blame for jeopardizing economic growth.
Still, said Patrick Parenteau, an environmental law professor at the Vermont Law School, "Here at a single glance, you see the sweep of the Endangered Species Act. They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now.
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The flurry of action could help revive President Barack Obama's standing among wildlife advocates upset over the administration's support for taking grey wolves off the endangered list
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It also could set the stage for a new round of disputes pitting conservation against development.
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In response to the administration's decisions under the settlements, Republicans including U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, repeated their call to overhaul the 37-year-old endangered act. The Washington state lawmaker is planning hearings this fall into what he characterizes as the law's failure.
"The ESA is unfortunately now used as a tool in costly lawsuits where politics trump science and jobs and economic prosperity are put in jeopardy," Hastings said Thursday.
Earlier this year, citing restrictions against development and other activities, GOP lawmakers unsuccessfully sought to strip the federal budget of money to list new species as threatened or endangered. The administration is seeking $25 million for the listing program in 2012, an 11 per cent increase.
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Noah Greenwald with the Center for Biological Diversity said the Fish and Wildlife Service was making "substantial progress."
"This is what we were looking for — starting to move species out of the pipeline into listing,
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Not all Americans are on the list, only conservative, gun carrying, God fearing and generally Republicans would be on the list of endangered species but instead they are marked for extermination by this administration.
Agreed.
Enforcing the law Richard Nixon established, screwed again.
Rats and wolves cannot be killed but human babies can. How shameful and pathetic of the commiecrat party.
I saw a show on discovery channel or something that said all creatures once thought to be extinct have been found on the Galapagos Islands.I doubt there are any endangered species anymore it is probably a DNC slush fund.
99% of all species that have lived on planet Earth have gone extinct.
Extinction is a way of life on earth. Why fight it?
It’s more welfare for biology graduates. They feel entitled to being employed in do-nothing jobs and being overpaid. If business leaders figure that out before the end of the default process, we’ll see more sanity in policies (won’t happen).
Under the ESA “species” can be defined as whatever the government wants.
It used to be that that the term species meant something, that critters couldn’t interbreed and provide viable offspring unless they were the same species.
Unlike unborn Americans, approximately 1/4 of which will be viciouslly MURDERED before they get to take a breath of air.
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org/abortionindex.html
Full body armor?
Simple!
They, too; are an "Endangered Species".
It's OBVIOUS that we in this country do not REALLY believe in Evolution, or else NOTHING would be 'protected' or 'subsidized'.
You’ve nailed it!
No more WIC!
No more Section 8!!
No more 2 years of Unemployment ‘compensation’!!!
But no one ‘owns’ land.
They have a piece of paper that allows them to pay RENT to the Gov’t: property taxes.
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