Powerful lawmaker wants to 'invalidate' the Endangered Species Act. He's getting close.
Source: Washington Post
Powerful lawmaker wants to ‘invalidate’ the Endangered Species Act. He’s getting close.
By Darryl Fears November 5 at 7:00 AM
The congressman who said he “would love to invalidate” the Endangered Species Act is closing in on his goal.
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) recently shepherded five bills out of the Natural Resources Committee he chairs that would dismantle the law piece by piece. Many Republicans on the panel say the proposals are necessary changes that would modernize the 1973 law. Democrats and conservationists say the bills would whittle away the law’s ability to save wildlife from extinction.
One measure would force the federal government to consider the economic impact of saving a species rather than make a purely scientific call. Another would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers the act along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to defer to data collected by states as the “best scientific and commercial data available,” although state funding related to the act accounts for a small fraction of that supported by the federal government.
Under a third proposal, citizens and conservation groups would be stripped of a powerful tool that allows them to file court claims against the government when they believe its protections fall short. Among other actions, the remaining bills would also remove protections for gray wolves in Midwestern states and block courts from ruling on the validity of the government’s decisions.
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They're out to kill everything on the planet.
Total waste of a whole lot of skin and vinyl hair.
It's not up to a culture of greedy idiots to kill off life on our planet. In time, this is going to backfire on this stupid louts. Can't wait.