GOP "Funding" Bill used to destroy parts of the Environment

[papau]

"As of late Thursday, members of Congress and their staffs were busy negotiating which Corps of Engineers water projects would be funded in the Water Resources Development Act. The House passed a $4-billion version of the bill, and a Senate committee drafted an almost $18-billion version."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-riders19nov19.story

Last-Hour Additions to Funding Bill Trouble Environmentalists

By Elizabeth Shogren, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — <snip>

.. exempt large livestock and dairy farms from some environmental laws

...billions of dollars for Army Corps of Engineers water projects

....authorize a land exchange to allow oil drilling on what is now part of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska

....lift a wilderness designation from Georgia's Cumberland Island, opening the largest undeveloped island on the East Coast to commercial development.

.... allow commercial fish hatcheries and stocking in protected wilderness areas, national parks and wildlife areas in Alaska


....exclude grazing permit renewals in national forests from the need for environmental reviews.

....the restoration of the Louisiana coastline, which is losing a football field worth of land every hour largely because of corps projects that leveed the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and caused major deterioration of coastal wetlands

... a $1.7-billion expansion of the locks on the upper Mississippi River. Grain growers want the expansion, but three National Research Council panels have criticized the corps for failing to justify the expansion.

....protect large dairy and livestock businesses from lawsuits now in the courts that could require them to publicly report emissions of toxic air pollutants such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from their manure pits - via a Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) provision that would exempt "biological processes" at agriculture operations from requirements of the Superfund law and the Emergency Planning Community Right to Know Act, according to his spokesman, Dan Whiting.

...two measures that could erode provisions of the Endangered Species Act probably would not be included.

.....efforts were underway to include a measure to rewrite a key Endangered Species Act regulation. The measure — which was pushed by developers in California — would ensure that once the federal government agreed how much land could be developed and how much must be left undeveloped to protect an endangered plant or animal, it would not rethink its plan. "Even if a species is headed directly to extinction, the government's hands would be tied,"

[lapfog_1]

1. You haven't lived until you have seen

a real live pig shit geyser. Bushco is just trying to give more
people the chance to experience this wonder of nature

[papau]

2. we were going to do something about the open pig cess pools in

the Carolina's so that the hurricanes would not cover the states with shit -

I guess this is the solution.