Overnight Energy: GOP takes on endangered species reform

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY TIMOTHY CAMA AND DEVIN HENRY - 07/19/17 06:06 PM EDT


ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Congressional Republicans launched efforts Wednesday aimed at reforming the Endangered Species Act to make it more friendly for states, landowners, industry and others.

The debates in the House and Senate were on bills with specific, limited purposes, not the full-scale comprehensive reforms that Republicans and some industries have been craving.

Nonetheless, the GOP made it clear that they want to make significant changes to the law that they see as outdated, ineffective and unnecessarily costly for states and land users.

Democrats, meanwhile, see the proposals as significant threats to a bedrock environmental law and a handout to industries, including oil and natural gas.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/overnights/342815-overnight-energy-gop-takes-on-endangered-species-reform

[freddyvh]

1. for dinner?

we all know that is the only way the GOP wants endangered animals.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Stuffed and mounted?

[NCjack]

3. Open season all year long for folks like the Trump sons. nt

[Moostache]

4. Evidence of a 6th mass extinction is already piling up...

And these motherfucking cunts want to make it EASIER to destroy habitats and MORE likely that extinctions continue apace!?!?!?!?

I hope they all choke to death and die in agony.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Did I mention how much I detest the GOP? They are literally out to destroy

my country and as much of the world that they can.

[turbinetree]

6. These jerks don't realize, that without animals we die

These jerks don't realize, that without trees we die
These jerks don't realize that without clean water we die
These jerks don't realize that without clean air we die


Where in the hell are these jerks going to go...............Mars


These jerks are just plain STUPID