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Conservation Report: Some Wetlands Survive--For Now
by Bob Marshall
Word from Washington yesterday indicates the omnibus spending bill will arrive on President Obama's desk without policy riders attached by the House GOP and favored by some Senate Republicans that would weaken environmental protections for wetlands and other fish and wildlife habitat.
The Congressional Quarterly reported "Senate Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the language included in the spending bill (HR 2354) that passed the House in July will not be part of the final omnibus measure under negotiation."
Republican lawmakers have opposed a new wetlands guidance from the Obama Administration that would restore protection to some of the 20 million wetlands left open to development by Supreme Court decisions in 2002 and 2006. Wildlife officials say the wetlands affected--called isolated and temporary or "intermittent"--are essential to waterfowl nesting grounds on the prairies and riparian habitat in the west, responsible for 50 percent of the wild trout populations and essential to big game herds.
While the new guidance will help, it doesn't restore coverage to most of the pothole country. Dale Hall, Ducks Unlimited CEO, said "we're still exposed to tremendous destruction" of critical waterfowl breeding habitat by the court rulings. He said the only way to protect those areas is for Congress to pass the long-delayed Clean Water Restoration Act, which specifically lists those habitats.
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Comments (8)
When will sportsmen realize that the biggest threat to conservation and their sport aren't predators or the Humane Society? Those are nothing more than strategic distractions perpetuated by industry-backed "sportsmen" groups and their butt buddies in congress.
Excerpt I pulled from the NBC website. The article was titled Deal Made to Avoid Government Shutdown. The article of course detailed the specifics regarding the continuing resolution signed by congress to keep the government afloat. Here is the excerpt:"Environmentalists scored clear wins in stopping virtually every significant GOP initiative to roll back Environmental Protection Agency rules. Most importantly, industry forces seeking to block new greenhouse gas and clean air rules, as well as a new clean water regulation opposed by mountaintop removal mining interests, were denied. But Republicans succeeded in blocking new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs and won delays to a new Labor Department rule requiring a reduction of coal dust responsible for black lung disease." I think the differences in the two parties goals are evident in that paragraph. Wow, what a win! Thanks to the GOP we can continue to keep inefficient light bulbs, and mine workers won't be protected from black lung disease. I have a hard time believing people actually voted these GOP law makers into office.
"Wow, what a win! Thanks to the GOP we can continue to keep inefficient light bulbs"
Wouldn't want the dadgum gubmint messin' with our lives and savin' us money on our electric bills, now would we?
Anyone know why the bill will be passed, and taxes not raised? Stuff has to be paid for folks..understand how things get paid for in this country...15 trillion in debt, and rising doesn't get it for anyone regardless of your political beliefs. And we still are just "temporary funding the govt", and not able to cut congress' massive spending, and added debt creation that is guaranteed to crush all conservation programs, along with everything else...and that's a fact.
Yeah. Well, most of that $15T comes from two unpaid-for wars and DoD budgets that account for 4% of our GDP every year, forever, mostly spent defending OTHER nations so that they won't have to tax THEIR citizens to pay for their defense.
I could fix our Federal budget in two days. Just get the US gov't back to the business of defending AMERICAN interests rather than GLOBAL interests.
I came across 2 interesting articles today that I thought I'd share:
New Analysis Quantifies Economic Impact of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in Ten States (analysisgroup.com/RGGI.aspx)
and
New Report Finds Aging Water Infrastructure Burdens US Economy (stormh2o.com/the-latest/water-infrastructure-report.aspx)
"Anyone know why the bill will be passed, and taxes not raised? Stuff has to be paid for folks..understand how things get paid for in this country"
Which tax hike is Sayfu favoring? This is an interesting change of heart.
Let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire? Hell no! Job killing tax hike so Obama can continue to spend us into the ground.
Let the payroll tax cut expire? Hell yes! We got stuff to pay for in this country!
Well, why not let all the tax cuts expire, bring in more revenue, and pay for the things that way! I don't have any degrees sitting on my wall, but this sure makes sense to me!
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Excerpt I pulled from the NBC website. The article was titled Deal Made to Avoid Government Shutdown. The article of course detailed the specifics regarding the continuing resolution signed by congress to keep the government afloat. Here is the excerpt:"Environmentalists scored clear wins in stopping virtually every significant GOP initiative to roll back Environmental Protection Agency rules. Most importantly, industry forces seeking to block new greenhouse gas and clean air rules, as well as a new clean water regulation opposed by mountaintop removal mining interests, were denied. But Republicans succeeded in blocking new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs and won delays to a new Labor Department rule requiring a reduction of coal dust responsible for black lung disease." I think the differences in the two parties goals are evident in that paragraph. Wow, what a win! Thanks to the GOP we can continue to keep inefficient light bulbs, and mine workers won't be protected from black lung disease. I have a hard time believing people actually voted these GOP law makers into office.
"Wow, what a win! Thanks to the GOP we can continue to keep inefficient light bulbs"
Wouldn't want the dadgum gubmint messin' with our lives and savin' us money on our electric bills, now would we?
When will sportsmen realize that the biggest threat to conservation and their sport aren't predators or the Humane Society? Those are nothing more than strategic distractions perpetuated by industry-backed "sportsmen" groups and their butt buddies in congress.
Yeah. Well, most of that $15T comes from two unpaid-for wars and DoD budgets that account for 4% of our GDP every year, forever, mostly spent defending OTHER nations so that they won't have to tax THEIR citizens to pay for their defense.
I could fix our Federal budget in two days. Just get the US gov't back to the business of defending AMERICAN interests rather than GLOBAL interests.
I came across 2 interesting articles today that I thought I'd share:
New Analysis Quantifies Economic Impact of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in Ten States (analysisgroup.com/RGGI.aspx)
and
New Report Finds Aging Water Infrastructure Burdens US Economy (stormh2o.com/the-latest/water-infrastructure-report.aspx)
"Anyone know why the bill will be passed, and taxes not raised? Stuff has to be paid for folks..understand how things get paid for in this country"
Which tax hike is Sayfu favoring? This is an interesting change of heart.
Let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire? Hell no! Job killing tax hike so Obama can continue to spend us into the ground.
Let the payroll tax cut expire? Hell yes! We got stuff to pay for in this country!
Well, why not let all the tax cuts expire, bring in more revenue, and pay for the things that way! I don't have any degrees sitting on my wall, but this sure makes sense to me!
Anyone know why the bill will be passed, and taxes not raised? Stuff has to be paid for folks..understand how things get paid for in this country...15 trillion in debt, and rising doesn't get it for anyone regardless of your political beliefs. And we still are just "temporary funding the govt", and not able to cut congress' massive spending, and added debt creation that is guaranteed to crush all conservation programs, along with everything else...and that's a fact.
Post a Comment