Posted on 11/23/2010 12:35:00 PM PST by SmithL
Three environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday to force it to prevent lead poisoning of wildlife from spent ammunition and lost fishing tackle.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by the Center for Biological Diversity, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the hunters group Project Gutpile. It comes after the EPA denied their petition to ban lead ammunition and lead fishing tackle, which the groups say kills 10 million to 20 million birds and other animals a year by lead poisoning.
"The EPA has the ability to protect America's wildlife from ongoing preventable lead poisoning, but continues to shirk its responsibility," said Jeff Miller, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity.
The lawsuit asks a judge to order the EPA to develop rules to prevent wildlife poisoning from spent lead ammunition and fishing tackle.
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I’m guessing that 10-20 million is similar to Algore and his “the seas will rise 100 feet if we don’t dire hybrids now” claim.
“Maybe I’ll get in on that lost fishing tackle part. There’s a place where I fish on the Occoquan River in Virginia that absolutely swallows lead jigs and shad darts. Probably lost 200-300 lbs over the years.”
I fished the stretch from the route 1 bridge upstream to the old dam for many years,beginning in the early 70s. The shad fishing was awesome. We moved away from Northern Virginia’s I-95 parking lot three years ago.
10 million to 20 million birds and other animals a year by lead poisoning.
and the proof is?
apparently, even tho theyve 'evolved' for gazillions of years, theyre still too stupid to not eat toxic metals...
having said that, i cant tell if i speak of the birds or the bunnyhuggers...8^}
You hit the nail right on the head. 100% Right.
>[ Richard Milhous Nixon ]
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>When the party moved away from the ideals of Goldwater and more towards the ideals of Big Government NWO RINOism, we really failed as a country.
Which is actually very interesting. Do you think that the current “under 30” group will EVER vote Republican if they as-a-party do not ACTUALLY strive for the accomplishment of their stated party-planks THIS TERM? Consider that the Republican party has a VERY, VERY bad remembered-history with this group {Reagan is a non-remembered historical abnormality of the implementation of “conservative”-values}. In the last decade, especially when the Republican-party had control of the Executive and Legislative branches, how many times was a law/amendment nationally outlawing abortion proposed? Zero; and overturning Roe v. Wade *IS* in the Republican-party’s officially stated platform-planks. How about the repealing/rolling-back of gun control? Nope, nothing on that front about the only thing that can be said about the Republican-party on that is that they allowed the sunset-clause of Clinton’s “Assault Weapons Ban” happen... BFD, there’s a big difference between passively ‘letting’ something happen and actively ‘making’ something happen.
The Democratic-party, however, *does* push for it’s platform-planks. In that sense the Democrats *ARE* more honest than the Republicans. {And remember NY-23 & what the Republican-party did there!}
I think that the Republican Party has “one [last] chance” to prove itself; that is to say if they do nothing to ACTIVELY fight against government-creep in these next two years then they will have proved themselves to be irrelevant non-answers to the policies embraced/pushed by the Democratic-party.
just to many wusses to worry about.
if you let your little rug rat live in a house with lead paint flakes on the wall, you may have a problem with him eating those paint flakes if you don't feed him real food..
I have old plumbing (lead solder), come into contact with lead fumes and mercury, reload ammo, make bullets and sinkers and have done so for many decades, am almost 62 and like I said have near zero heavy metal in my body.
people need to get a life and stop trying to push their leftist crap on the rest of us normal Americans.
ps, this house contains Chemical and Mechanical engineers, all play with heavy metals and no one here is contaminated.
the Center for Biological Diversity, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the hunters group Project GutpileThanks SmithL.
It creation was part of the media war against Nixon so because the “rivers were on fire” he allowed the Democrats to create it. It didn’t buy him all that much time turns out.
I’ve made it to my mid 60’s with a childhood of several things: Our dentist gave us bottles of mercury to play with. We chewed tar balls. We washed grease from our hands with gasoline. Our parents smoked like chimneys. We had our own 22’s when we were 12. We sunburned multiple times each summer. People need to toughen up. These controlling lefty nannies who want to protect everyone from everything (except other lefties) need to STFU. Lefties are mutants. Lefties are losers.
Lead piping becomes coated with minerals in water systems so after a short time it has no real contact with water flowing through the pipes.
When the EPA was initiated, it was sorely needed. Also, it did a lot of good that again, was sorely needed. It's original mission was technology based and there was a very healthy, mutually beneficial interaction with industry.
However, in the late 1970’s, the EPA began a change that essentially diminished its engineering capabilities and replaced it with lawyers and assorted paper pushers with an agenda. There is still a small core of top notch technology folks but they're sort of locked up. Every once in awhile, I have a technical question that the paper pushers can't handle and I keep poking up through the EPA and generally can get to a real smart, practical person. It's kind of funny, these folks are usually so excited to be talking to a real person and they gush great information to you when they realize that they're talking engineer to engineer without any filtering.
Bottom line, I have little to no respect for EPA paper pushers and agenda pushers. I have top respect for their (locked away) engineers.
I used to smoke cigarettes. Believe me, I know...
It isn't just the liberals.
Who would have thought tobacco would be practically banned and pot practically legal...?
Americans need to band together and sue the EPA for...well...just existing and wasting taxpayer dollars.
Also sportsmen were advocates for wetland and habitat preservation long before Silent Spring begat, in a sense, the first Earth Day, the modern Environmental movement and school curricula that promotes feel-good “green” histrionics.
Did George Soros buy a bismuth mine?
Good thing, too, as they tend to sink if you're not paying attention to your casting.
Washington, D.C. Staff of PEER.ORG
Jeff Ruch has been the Executive Director of PEER since 1997. With Jeff DeBonis, he helped to start PEER and for its first four years served as General Counsel & Program Director. Prior to that Jeff was the Policy Director and a staff attorney at the Government Accountability Project representing whistleblowers from both the public and private sector. Before coming to DC, Jeff worked in California state government for 17 years, mostly in the State Legislature as counsel to various committees where he drafted literally hundreds of laws on topics ranging from energy conservation to the rights of employed inventors. Jeff served stints as a deputy district attorney, an appellate court clerk and is a graduate of the California Correctional Officers Academy. jruch@peer.org
Kate Hornyan joins PEER as the Membership and Outreach Coordinator. She is a recent graduate of the George Washington University where she studied International Affairs and Human Services. She is currently continuing her studies as a GW Colonial and is pursuing a Master’s in Public Administration. Through these academic pursuits, Kate has been able to apply her interest in international relations to her passion for nonprofit work. Although academically focused in international affairs, Kate looks forward to applying her skills and learning more about environmental issues with PEER. khornyan@peer.org
Paula Dinerstein is PEER’s Senior Counsel and an attorney with 18 years of experience. She received her law degree from the George Washington University National Law Center. Prior to joining PEER, she clerked for a federal district court judge in Washington DC and then practiced with small public-interest oriented law firms. Her work included representation of States and advocacy groups in energy and environmental matters, including recovery for overcharges by oil companies for use in state energy conservation programs, challenges to EPA pesticide registrations, challenges to hydroelectric licenses, and litigation concerning regulations which weakened the federal organic food standards. pdinerstein@peer.org
Chiquita Edwards, Finance and Administration Manager, brings numerous years of non-profit management experience to PEER. She has provided financial, human resources, administrative, and technological expertise to Prince George’s Community College Foundation, The Institute for Conservation Leadership, Public Justice, and the Children’s Defense Fund. For the past four years she also owned and operated a part-time bookkeeping business. Chiquita is pursuing a M.Ed. in Adult Education and holds a B.S. in Social Science from the University of Maryland University College and an A.S. in Business from Prince George’s Community College. Chiquita also holds the titles of wife, mother, and grandmother and enjoys the outdoors, spoiling her grandson and is in happy anticipation of her second grandchild (and hoping it’s a girl). cedwards@peer.org
Christine Erickson is PEER Staff Counsel. She graduated from American University, Washington College of Law in 2008, where she was editor of the Sustainable Development Law and Policy Journal, as well as Vice President of the Environmental Law Society. During law school, she worked for the Environmental Protection Agency, in the Air Enforcement Division. After leaving the EPA, she went on to clerk at the Natural Resources Defense Council, working on various federal and international environmental cases. She has a B.S. in English and Political Science from UCLA. cerickson@peer.org
Kirsten Stade is PEER’s Advocacy Director. For more than a decade she has worked on campaigns targeting extractive industries on public lands, and has published research with WildEarth Guardians on the impacts of livestock grazing on fire ecology and ecosystem health in the American west. She has a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Earth Systems from Stanford University. Kirsten enjoys training and grooming dogs, and volunteers with animal rescue groups in the Washington, DC area. She lives with her partner and a growing number of rescued dogs in Takoma Park, MD. kstade@peer.org
Field Staff
Kyla Bennett is PEER’s New England Field Director. Kyla previously worked at EPA Region 1 for 10 years as a wetland permit reviewer and as the Region’s Wetlands Enforcement Coordinator. Kyla first became involved with PEER in the mid 1990s, when she became a whistleblower herself. Kyla has a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Connecticut and a law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. nepeer@peer.org
Jerry Phillips is PEER’s Florida Field Director. Jerry is a former enforcement attorney with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. In that position he was responsible for initiating enforcement actions against wastewater facilities that were in violation of environmental regulations. Jerry was also involved in developing the enforcement aspect of Florida’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Program. flpeer@peer.org
Karen Schambach is PEER’s California Field Director. Karen has a strong track record as an activist in off-road vehicle and forestry issues. Karen has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies, and worked as a paralegal specializing in employment law prior to becoming PEER’s California representative. capeer@peer.org
Bill Wolfe, another former client, heads NJ PEER. Bill spent13 years as a Policy Analyst and Planner with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (1985-1995; 2002-2004). Bill came to know PEER in 1994 when his career at DEP was punctuated by his public disclosure of the state?s efforts to suppress and avoid responding to scientific research documenting high levels of mercury in NJ freshwater fish. Shortly thereafter, Bill left NJDEP to become the Policy Director for Sierra Club’s NJ Chapter from 1995-2002. Then in 2002, Commissioner Bradley Campbell invited Bill to rejoin DEP and serve as the “conscience of the Agency.” Bill left the Agency in July 2004 to rejoin the NJ environmental community, and has been with PEER (with one break) since 2005. njpeer@peer.org
Chandra Rosenthal is PEER’s Rocky Mountain Field Director. Chandra is a former staff attorney with Defenders of Wildlife specializing in endangered species and public lands issues. Chandra has also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and, under a legal fellowship, worked on a Superfund site with the Department of Energy. rmpeer@peer.org
Barry Sulkin is PEER’s Tennessee Field Director. Barry is a Volunteer State native and former Chief of Enforcement and Compliance for the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (TDEC). Barry worked for TDEC from 1976 - 1990, leaving shortly after testifying that the agency had issued an illegal permit. Since then, he has created an extensive private practice as an investigator and scientist serving citizen groups and others on a wide range of water quality issues. tnpeer@peer.org
Daniel Patterson is an ecologist and PEER’s Southwest Director. He has been active with PEER since the mid-90’s. He previously worked with BLM in the Mojave Desert on off-road vehicles and endangered species, and as Deserts Program Director with the Center for Biological Diversity. Daniel is a graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Natural Resources. He serves on the City of Tucson Planning Commission, Pima County Board of Adjustment, and as President of the Santa Rita Park Neighborhood Association. swpeer@peer.org
Federal agencies are part of the Executive branch of the government. The EPA would not have been created and developed unless Mr. Nixon WANTED it.
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