Either he’s still holding a grudge over this eagle or he’s owned by extractive industries, our president and his administration have been working fulltime to destroy the environment, wildlife, and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Today’s action involves Trump’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), who are targeting critical wildlife habitats with a deceptive and unresearched definition of “habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). If finalized, it will be much more difficult to protect habitat critical for the survival and recovery of endangered species.
Let’s talk about how to comment on their proposed definition.
The proposed regulation is here. It is purposely hard to understand.
There are 47,880 comments already and you can read them for inspiration here. You can read about 5 of them before you realize…
…that about 47,870 of them are this exact one below, which means that, after they remove ALL THE COPIES, there will be about (11) original comments left.
Jim Hines of the Sierra Club has written us about three proposed regulatory changes that affect the Endangered Species Act.
“These [three actions] and other soon-to-be-coming regulations rollbacks are nothing more than part of a full scale effort by the Trump Administration to eliminate the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), an act which has worked just fine for 50 years saving thousands of plants, animals, birds and marine mammals from extinction…
…[U.S. Senator John Barrosso (R-WY) and Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, among others] are dedicated to a complete rollback of any regulation which protects wildlife in our nation and they are doing this all for the fossil fuels industry.”
This is a great video from 2012 that describes what the Endangered Species Act has been so far.
Action #1 – They keep moving the battlefield, thinking they’ll lose us…
The GOP hid environmental devastation in funding bills in what could only be described as environmental war crimes. Our post on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is here.
They are hiding extinction in deceptively-named legislation (here) and (here)
They also like to kill threatened species abroad (here)
But until today’s deadline of September 24th, we are now concentrating on threeproposed rule changes that would severely undermine the Endangered Species Act (earlier post here).
Alter this to sound like you and post here, here and here: Written Script: I strongly oppose any weakening of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as currently proposed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. The ESA was adopted in 1973, with overwhelming bipartisan support, and it has been very successful in preserving animal and plant species in the US since then. It is also overwhelmingly supported by the American people who want to see our environment protected and a natural heritage left for our children and grandchildren. The proposed changes would completely undercut the effectiveness of the ESA by overwhelming underfunded federal agencies tasked with making conservation decisions. The proposed changes would benefit a small group of commercial interests (oil and gas extraction, mining, ranching) to the detriment of our nation’s natural heritage and the survival of the species with which we share this land. This would destroy the effectiveness of the ESA’s intended goal of preserving species. Comments must all be posted by TODAY, Sept. 24th!
Jim Hines of the Sierra Club has written us about three proposed regulatory changes that affect the Endangered Species Act.
“These [three actions] and other soon-to-be-coming regulations rollbacks are nothing more than part of a full scale effort by the Trump Administration to eliminate the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), an act which has worked just fine for 50 years saving thousands of plants, animals, birds and marine mammals from extinction…
…[U.S. Senator John Barrosso (R-WY) and Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, among others] are dedicated to a complete rollback of any regulation which protects wildlife in our nation and they are doing this all for the fossil fuels industry.”
This is a great video from 2012 that describes what the Endangered Species Act has been so far.
Action #1 – They keep moving the battlefield, thinking they’ll lose us…
The GOP hid environmental devastation in funding bills in what could only be described as environmental war crimes. Our post on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is here.
They are hiding extinction in deceptively-named legislation (here) and (here)
They also like to kill threatened species abroad (here)
But until the deadline of September 24th, we are now concentrating on threeproposed rule changes that would severely undermine the Endangered Species Act (earlier post here).
(Graphic from the Center for Biological Diversity’s report on “The Unprecedented Republican Attack on Endangered Species and the Endangered Species Act.” from 2015)
Action #1 – Write comments to protect the Endangered Species Act (ESA) from the GOP’s regulatory attack.
Earlier this week, we published the comments link to stop the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the NOAA Fisheries from gutting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) rules. More information here. Deadline for comments on this piece of regulatory shenanigans is Sept. 24th. Write early, write often.
Now, let’s head on to legislation, where enemies of the Endangered Species Act try to undermine it with the death of a thousand cuts. The damage these guys do in the name of oil, gas and big agriculture will be profound and irreversible.
Action #2 – Protect migratory birds from an expanded hunting season.
In 1918, the United States enacted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) to protect migratory birds, which helped restore populations of many birds from near extinction. Nearly 100 years later, our bird populations are being threatened again, from habitat loss, global warming and from really stupid pandering legislation like this: HR6013/S2942 – “Migratory Bird Framework and Hunting Opportunities for Veterans Act”. This photo-op for right-wing legislators expands the hunting season and the stress on migratory bird populations, under the guise of providing “special” days for youths, veterans and military personnel, who are perfectly capable of hunting during the regular season. No one asked for this.
Minimal Script: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Rep./Sen. [___] to strongly oppose [Rep.-HR6013/Sen.-S2942} – “Migratory Bird Framework and Hunting Opportunities for Veterans Act”.
Background Two snake species, the narrow-headed gartersnake and northern Mexican gartersnakes, live in wetland areas alongside rivers, where they hunt for tadpoles and minnows. They’ve have suffered catastrophic population declines in recent decades as over 90 percent of their riverside habitats have disappeared due to overgrazing, water diversions, wildfires and drought.
INDIVISIBLE VENTURA 