Bush Admin Secret Plan To "Gut" Endangered Species Act Revealed

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/27/endangered-species

Bush Administration’s Secret Plan To ‘Gut’ Endangered Species Act Revealed



A 117-page document obtained by Salon.com highlights a “secretive plan” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to “gut” the Endangered Species Act.

The law, which is credited with saving the American Bald Eagle from extinction,” would be changed to limit the number of species that can be protected,” curtail preserved acres of wildlife habitat, and “dilute legal barriers that protect habitat from sprawl, logging or mining.” These proposed changes are the latest in the Bush administration’s attempts to weaken the Endangered Species Act in favor of special interests:

– Scientists pressured to alter findings. FWS scientists had been “forced to alter or withhold findings that would have led to greater protections for endangered species,” according to a 2005 survey.

– Political appointees overruled scientists’ findings in favor of industry positions. Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald consistently “rejected staff scientists’ recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act.” She called scientific studies “opinion” and told employees to treat them “as we would treat an industry publication.”

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[xultar]

1. Why are they waiting. The Bush Admin should just shoot off all our nukes right now.

They should just destroy the world right now. Cuz that is what they are doing. Basically the effect of this administration is a disaster of untold proportion. I JUST HATE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

[Iwasthere]

3. When I make posts stating the same

"He is destroying the planet, quite literally!" I catch hell.

[Iwasthere]

2. This madman started very young....

Putting firecrackers up the asses of frogs and gleefully blowing them up (and torturing other small animals). We should have seen THAT sign. Goes way beyond being a bully imo.

And he is mad.

[Double T]

4. Plants, Animals and People will ALL have a sigh of relief...........

once HE is GONE!!!!

http://www.backwardsbush.com/images/BackwardsBush_Flash.swf

[depakid]

5. This will be challenged in court as an abuse of discretion

and the agency will lose.

One thing I'll say for Republicans though- they understand how to wield power at the administrative agencies and press forward their agenda.

Clinton failed miserably at that (or perhaps- he had a Republican lite agenda all along).