Posted on 06/05/2021 4:35:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration says it is canceling or reviewing a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, with a goal of strengthening a landmark law while addressing climate change.
The reviews by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are aimed at five Endangered Species Act regulations finalized by the Trump administration, including critical habitat designations and rules defining the scope of federal actions on endangered species.
Habitat designations for threatened or endangered species can result in limitations on energy development such as mining or oil drilling that could disturb a vulnerable species, while the scoping rule helps determine how far the government may go to protect imperiled species.
Under Trump, officials rolled back protections for the northern spotted owl, gray wolves and other species, actions that President Joe Biden has vowed to review. His administration already has moved to reverse Trump’s decision to weaken enforcement of the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which made it harder to prosecute bird deaths caused by the energy industry.
The decision on the bird law was among more than 100 business-friendly actions on the environment that Trump took and Biden wants reconsidered and possibly revised or scrapped. The reviews announced Friday follow through on that executive order.
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BLM……..BAT lives matter.
As I recall, the breeder reactor project was stopped, after spending boat loads of money, because it allegedly endangered a fish called a snail darter. There were a lot of things that could have been done to protect the snail darter, if that was the objective. But, it thorns out the only “acceptable” thing to protect the snail darters was cancelling this huge project. We know now that the money group behind the legislation had an entire list of other creatures who would be affected and they planned to sue over each and every one.
Incidentally, the real problem was that reactor could have been built for a tiny fraction of the money simply by scaling it down. But the objective of building it wasn’t to reprocess spent uranium back into useable fuel, thus solving the storage problem...no, the objective was to have a huge project so ever constituent could get a piece of the project’s pie. That, is the problem with everything the government does. Nobody wants a small project that takes care of the problem. Every politician wants a big chunk of cash they can direct to their supporters.
DC swamp vermin top the list.
How about we protect another endangered species
The American Baby
Slaughtered by the millions
Natural habitat spoiled and threatened
Public policy threatens healthy development
The list could be endless
I’m from the government and I’m here to…..stop you from getting anything done.
Stairmaster Joe Biden always the bird brain nothing ever changes.
Might want to add ‘conservatives’ and whites, oh , and taxpayers to the list, Thanks Joe.
To do that they will have to get rid of those windmills.
Trust me, OBiden is not driving this clown car.
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