The Bush/Cheney administration has just proposed sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act that would roll back decades of protection and prevent federal agencies from trying to protect endangered species from one of the biggest threats they face - global warming.
This new proposal, much of which has been previously rejected by Congress, would allow federal officials to bypass current requirements for independent, scientific review of development projects. Instead, federal officials could decide for themselves whether new development would harm endangered wildlife - with the burden of accountability falling on citizens to file lawsuits.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne admitted that these changes have been proposed to make sure that the Endangered Species Act would not be used to regulate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to protect polar bears and other species from global warming. In fact, agencies would be specifically forbidden from considering a project's emissions and the effect those would have on wildlife and habitat.
Proposing these drastic changes with only five months left in this administration is clearly an effort to secure changes that President Bush and Secretary Kempthorne have been unable to push through Congress. Tell Secretary Kempthorne to stop this back-door attack on our endangered wildlife!
We took action on “Stop the Bush/Cheney Attack on Endangered Species Act”!
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1:12 pm PST, Jan 20,Stephen Rodgers, Pennsylvania
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11:19 am PST, Jan 20,Therese Dautheribes, Arizona
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6:52 am PST, Jan 20,Lisa Porter, California
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10:58 pm PST, Jan 19,Jennifer Hille, Washington
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1:10 pm PST, Jan 19,Amy Sharkey, Washington
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12:46 pm PST, Jan 19,Name not displayed, Ohio
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12:21 pm PST, Jan 19,Rene Venema, Netherlands
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9:53 am PST, Jan 19,Scarlet Munguia, Mexico
Al terminar con la vida de un ser vivo esta dando vida a otro a un asesino a sueldo que despues hasta usted podria ser su presa.
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6:37 am PST, Jan 19,Jeanette Heim, California
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6:19 am PST, Jan 19,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
PLEASE stop the killing of our worlds endandered species
# 5,944:
3:56 am PST, Jan 19,Sheila J Smith, Michigan
It beyond belief that these idiots
would be so callous in regards to
other species. However this is been
the mantra of the administration if
it does not effect me it is not a problem.
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10:01 pm PST, Jan 18,Juliana Carpino, Canada
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7:15 pm PST, Jan 18,Name not displayed, Virginia
There is simply nothing more demoralizing or undermining of one's confidence in the integrity of public officials than to have to fight the same battles over and over and over again, and against the same special interests speciously mutating one ploy after another, wasting the time, money, and good faith of an entire nation!
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4:01 pm PST, Jan 18,Suzanne Vogt, Florida
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3:49 pm PST, Jan 18,Taylor Faircloth, Florida
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2:05 pm PST, Jan 18,Linda Wolff, New Mexico
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11:50 am PST, Jan 18,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
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9:29 am PST, Jan 18,Caroline Saulen, Washington
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9:26 am PST, Jan 18,J Copeland, United Kingdom
Hasn't enough damage already been done to the planet? How bad will it need to get before you finally realise the part you have played? You are in a privileged position and have responsibilities that you should start living up to.
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8:58 am PST, Jan 18,Nada Bambic, Serbia And Montenegro
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5:16 am PST, Jan 18,Name not displayed, Vermont
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2:06 am PST, Jan 18,Lucette Cabrilhac, France
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11:58 pm PST, Jan 17,Janine Van antwerp, South Africa
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6:52 pm PST, Jan 17,Brian Reynolds, New Jersey
# 5,930:
5:25 pm PST, Jan 17,Larry Smith, New Mexico
If these gifts from God don't have it tough enough with their habitat shrinking everyday because of human encroachment, now we have a proposal out there that will cripple the ESA. I say enough!
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2:13 pm PST, Jan 17,Geraldine Atos, New York
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10:32 am PST, Jan 17,Name not displayed, Maryland
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9:48 am PST, Jan 17,Tricia Browne, Illinois
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2:26 am PST, Jan 17,Suzi Gussakov, Brazil
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1:31 am PST, Jan 17,Bonnie Hancock, Indiana
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7:57 pm PST, Jan 16,Rose Becker, Canada
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7:10 pm PST, Jan 16,Racine Fontaine, Canada
these animals will soon die out if we dont do something....now
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4:52 pm PST, Jan 16,Name not displayed, New York
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4:40 pm PST, Jan 16,Elizabeth Kubiak, New York
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3:37 pm PST, Jan 16,Bonnice Forshey, Pennsylvania
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2:14 pm PST, Jan 16,Patricia Sn, Canada
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2:03 pm PST, Jan 16,Name not displayed, Washington
Please protect the polar bears and all endangered species. Have some integrity, don't agree to cut out existing protections, limit ESA and remove any chance for regulation in protection of wildlife by making it into litigious matter.
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1:26 pm PST, Jan 16,Marta Paczkowska, Poland
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9:38 am PST, Jan 16,Joan Diamond, Indiana
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8:23 am PST, Jan 16,Name not displayed, Indiana
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8:17 am PST, Jan 16,Steven Porto, Florida
# 5,912:
5:26 am PST, Jan 16,Erick Martinez, Mexico
hope human kind find the meaning of been human...
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4:49 am PST, Jan 16,Bianca Lodiers, Netherlands
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3:10 am PST, Jan 16,Aubertin Maitena, France
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5:01 pm PST, Jan 15,Jessica Brown, Texas
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1:22 pm PST, Jan 12,Amanda Torres, Illinois
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9:09 am PST, Jan 11,Peter Coverley, United Kingdom
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9:08 pm PST, Jan 9,Pia Samson, Philippines
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1:18 pm PST, Jan 8,Victoria Manriquez, California
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11:51 am PST, Jan 7,Hazel Coverley, United Kingdom
the ESA is very important. destroying it would undo years of good work. no noe has any right to get rid of the ESA. the agencies will be able to ignore what effect their new developments. the fact that they would be forbidden to consider the project's effects on the wildlife is absolutely disgusting. how dare anyone even consider such an atrocity?
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1:39 pm PST, Jan 5,Gail Costic, Pennsylvania
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1:27 am PST, Jan 4,Rr Ff, New York
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7:42 pm PST, Jan 3,Name not displayed, New York
Well why not help these animals in need, they can't help themselves, not with how people keep treating them. So we should help them get there lives back to where it should be.
