Bush eases pesticide reviews for endangered species

[quaoar]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-07-29-epa-pesticides_x.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency will be free to approve pesticides without consulting wildlife agencies to determine if the chemical might harm plants and animals protected by the Endangered Species Act, according to new Bush administration rules.

The streamlining by the Interior and Commerce departments represents "a more efficient approach to ensure protection of threatened and endangered species," officials with the two agencies, EPA and the Agriculture Department said in a joint statement Thursday.

It also is intended to head off future lawsuits, the officials said.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Who cares about animals?

They don't contribute to the Republican National Committee!

[montanacowboy]

2. These people become more unbalanced everyday

they are mad - perhaps we can start using DDT again?

[pinniped]

13. DDT cool, there are too many birds roaming around here anyways.

Especially those crazy bald eagles.:crazy:

Pretty soon the only place you will see eagles is on the reverse of a coin.

Disgusting POS.

[mom cat]

3. Disgusting! I can't wait until we are able to restore sanity to DC

[progressivebydesign]

4. This is why Robert Kennedy, Jr. was nearly in tears at the convention. N/T

[montana_hazeleyes]

5. This "administration"* is the

most backward-assed bunch of no caring, no concience, f-heads we could have ever been cursed with.

[Democat]

6. The Democratic Party has not made the environment a big enough issue

We can win over moderates with a strong defense of America's future and by exposing Bush's attack on the environment.

If a terrorist did to America's environment what Bush is trying to do, people of all parties would be outraged.

[Tellurian]

12. Oh, yes it has! Teresa is a vociferous environmentalist...

She might take on the EPA herself!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Well, if you can't knock the Kerry speech off the top of the news coverage

with spurious terror alerts or delayed news from Pakistan, then you go with the other approach - release all the news that would lose you some votes (but benfit your backers), while everyone's looking at Boston.

[MidwestTransplant]

8. a more efficient approach to ensure protection of threatened and endangere

YEAH RIGHT.

I hope this get's in an ad. I wish it could be explained to the American people in a soundbite so they would pay attention.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. ~expletives deleted~

I have only foul words for that little $#!+.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. If you didn't know the wh position on this, could you have

predicted (with absolute certainty) what it would be? I thought so.

[struggle4progress]

11. kick for poisonous SOBs

:kick: