California Attorney General Demands That Bush Halt Endangered Species Rule Change

Write to your congressman or congresswoman to encourage them to maintain protections for endangered species!

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has called on the Bush administration to abandon its proposed changes to rules in the Endangered Species Act in a letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The changes could put “entire species and ecosystems at risk for complete destruction,” Brown said in a statement to the media last week.

Brown sent a similar letter in mid-October, but his office said it was ignored. A few weeks later, the Department of the Interior concluded the rule changes would have no significant environmental impact, a claim Brown’s latest letter rejects.

As we reported earlier this week, the Bush administration wants to alter many environmental rules before it leaves office.

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Lydia 11/14/2008 08:55 AM 1 point
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Dear Kittymowmow: that letter is a pack of lies. The fence project was subject to rigorous environmental studies. Go to BorderFencePlanning.gov and read the environmental analysis and mitigation outlines to see what was done. Then get back to me. All the fence segments in cat habitat have "critter holes" in them to allow the animals to pass back and forth. At one location in California where 0.75 acres of habitat was disturbed, an additional 12 acres of habitat was created. There are independent environmental monitors (and cultural monitors) present on all of the fence construction sites. A little research and a little less emoting would go a long way for kitties.

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mjschindler 11/14/2008 10:24 AM 1 point
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Hi Lydia,

This article does not directly refer to a "fence project" being
mentioned in the letters sent from California Attorney General Jerry
Brown. This article makes general mention of policy changes such as
"remov[ing] a requirement (PDF) that says scientists at the Fish and
Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service must
evaluate how federally approved mining, logging and power plant
projects might impact endangered species before the projects can
begin."

Am I missing a link? What letter are you referring to?

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