Interior secretary backs weakening endangered species act

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com

"BOISE, Idaho -- Interior Secretary Gale Norton is backing congressional efforts to rewrite the federal Endangered Species Act, an undertaking that could give landowners tax breaks for helping plants and animals and allocate more power to political appointees.

"We need to take a hard look at how the (Endangered Species Act) is structured and administered," Norton said during a statehouse ceremony Thursday that transferred management of about 600 Idaho wolves from the federal government to the state. "We will continue to work with Congress."

Environmentalists credit the 1973 environmental law with helping prevent the extinction of such creatures as the bald eagle, grizzly bear and wolf. Some farm and property rights groups contend it hinders legitimate land uses and generates lawsuits."

[acmejack]

1. Gail does her part to demolish that which she has been given custody of

In keeping with * administration philosophy. Glad I always hated wolves, grizzly, bald eagles, whales, etc. Who needs all those damned creatures anyway, they just get in the way of my snowmobile.

Please wake me up when the adults are in charge once again. Thanx.
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[Dees]

2. She's the polluters pig in the pig pen

From Common Dreams...

.....Norton began her career litigating on behalf of cattlemen, miners and oil companies at James Watt's Mountain States Legal Foundation. She followed Watt to the Department of Interior, where she advocated policies such as opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. In the late 1980s, at the conservative Pacific Research Institute, she helped plan litigation strategy to enhance individual property rights at the expense of community interests. As Colorado's attorney general, Norton implemented a "self-auditing" procedure that allows polluters to evade environmental fines and promoted legislation that would have enshrined an extreme view of the "takings" clause of the U.S. Constitution.....

Norton is a dangerous species. She is owned by the cattle, timber and mining interests of the West. A true sold out corporatist attorney from the Sage Brush Rebellion, Mountain States Legal, Heritage, Coors bullshit school of thinking. In the company of James Watt and Ann Gorsuch Burford. These people are truly some of America's greediest, most selfish and least conservation minded. MonkeyNuts didn't appoint her for love of the environment. She is an enemy of the planet. How is it possible that this Repuke administration is dead wrong on every single environmental issue and policy. EPA and Interior are jokes to Republicans. Directors are there to dismantle these departments.

[spanone]

3. Of course she does, that's why she's in that position.

[Tsiyu]

4. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

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