Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress

[Tactical Peek]

Source: The Guardian


Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress

Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’


Mon 8 Apr 2019 06.00 EDT

Scientists and officials around the US have told the Guardian that the Trump administration has withdrawn funding for a large, successful conservation program – in direct contradiction of instructions from Congress.

Unique in scale and ambition, the program comprises 22 research centers that tackle big-picture issues affecting huge swaths of the US, such as climate change, flooding and species extinction. They are known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives – or were, because 16 of them are now on indefinite hiatus or have dissolved.

“I just haven’t seen anything like this in my almost 30 years of working with the federal government,” said a scientist at the Fish and Wildlife Service who worked for one of the LCCs and wished to remain anonymous, because federal employees were instructed not to speak with the Guardian for this story. “There is this lack of accountability.”

“Congress approved $12.5m for the existing 22 landscape conservation cooperatives,” said Betty McCollum, chair of the House interior-environment appropriations subcommittee, at a recent hearing with an interior department official. “[But] we are hearing disturbing reports from outside groups and concerned citizens that the LCC program is being altered and may not receive any federal funding.”






Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/08/trump-administration-sabotages-major-conservation-effort-defying-congress

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SIFUABS

[Moostache]

1. King George received the Declaration of Independence...

Pseudo king Donnie needs to receive a smack on the ass and permanent time-out until his term ends.

I have ALWAYS abhorred GOP projectionism, but the screams and wailing of Obama being an "Imperial Presidency" from Hannity and Limbaugh and the rest was clearly prophetic...

[moreland01]

2. And why should he spend money on

conservation when he plans to annihilate us all?

[ananda]

3. Situation is fucked up and bullshit. SIFUABS

I had to look it up.

[Roy Rolling]

4. There it is

He found some wall money.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Trump himself has no clue about this field, so which industry

anti-planet asshole told him to do it? Maybe Rupert Murdoch?

There is a war on against anything scientific, or Eco-friendly, or humane, or that uses truth and reality to support a positive view of humanity.

Murdoch profits every time Trump tweets his diabolical tripe.

[Maxheader]

6. Research to prevent or give immediate warning of flooding?

Imagine the people in iowa, and nebraska and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Midwestern_U.S._floods

Unique in scale and ambition, the program comprises 22 research centers that tackle big-picture issues affecting huge swaths of the US, such as climate change, flooding and species extinction. They are known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives – or were, because 16 of them are now on indefinite hiatus or have dissolved

Might have pretty strong opinions about this...americun agriculture should be screaming bloody murder ..

[Botany]

7. Pure gas lighting

make the liberal cry and distract from the crimes w/Russia

[LuvNewcastle]

12. That is what they do.

By the time we get mobilized to fight this, they'll be on to the next atrocity. We've got to stay focused. This misadministration has got to be exposed and taken down. They need to stay on track with looking into his finances and dealings with other countries.

[katmondoo]

8. I think Bush had the weather reports in his mind

he didn't like the warnings people were receiving from the weather men. This was after Katrina. I don't remember the details but it was similar to the Trumpers' but not as drastic.

[Honeycombe8]

9. OMG. He really does hate the environment, the natural world, natural beauty, trees, wildlife.

How can any human being hate those things? It's the EARTH. It's what it's all about. Without those things, we have nothing.

This is disturbing.

We HAVE to take back the country.

[NNYCDN51]

10. This Asshole and his Lackies don't like anything

except their own greed .... fuck EVERYTHING else.
They have no respect for anyone or anything else ... PURE EVIL.
I have belonged to the Natural Resources Defense Council for years and NEVER
has anything been seen the likes of the Orange Asshole and his minions.
2020 may be too late to stop the damage these morons are doing.




Keep On Thinking Free

[Submariner]

11. I hate him with the heat of a billion suns

He thrives on revenge and hate. He loves the hate and criticism.

He's in f*cking heaven, in his happy place. He should be arrested and locked up.

[Hestia]

13. You know, all the billionaires need to step the fuck up and fund these labs until we can get

out country back (!) from these marauders - what else could they be called? Along with other labs & departments and/or any other entity, making sure it will be temporary and they have to do like DuPont after WWII - only charge $1 above reasonable expenses (after they charged millions off of WWI).

They aren't the only side that can draw up a legally binding contract.

[riversedge]

16. That would be a wonderful solution. yes. it. would. If only@

[scipan]

14. the House allocated the money

where did it go?

[riversedge]

15. Umm. Is Trump diverting funding again ???

[politicaljunkie41910]

17. We all know that the dumbass doesn't read anything. Perhaps he thought this was an expensive

landscaping project and that we couldn't afford to spend that much money on grass at this time; or that he could get some Trump Company to do it for less.
Damn I miss Obama. Trump's ignorance is no longer something we can just roll our eyes about. The man is just plain ignorant at best; wasteful and potentially irreversibly harmful to our country and the environment, at worse.