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Apr

11

EPA Survives a Close One But the Endangered Northern Rockies Gray Wolf Doesn’t Make It
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By Andrea Goldman

There is a lot going on in Washington D.C. these days with all of the talk about the budget.  Some of it relates to trying to put a stranglehold on the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon pollution under the provisions of The Clean Air Act.  Quite frankly, I think that there is a certain segment that would like to just deny global warming issues and get rid of any type of regulations in that arena.  Just prior to the shutdown of the government, reports sustainableBusiness.com on April 11, 2011, the provisions blocking the EPA were not passed, however, this came at the price of an animal being taken off of the endangered species list through Congressional legislation, as a result of politics rather than scientific research and recommendation.

The Northern Rockies gray wolf was removed from the endangered list leaving it open to extinction at the mercy of the states of Idaho and Montana who anxiously await their massacre according to sustainableBusiness.com.

Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID) and Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) inserted the stealth attack on the wolves, leaving them at the mercy of states that plan to kill hundreds of them.

It is a shameful day for this nation when both parties unite behind the slaughter of an endangered species – without public hearing or debate.

On numerous occasions, things get hidden in with legislation with the drafters hoping that no one will notice or trying to exert their leverage by stopping something major with a piece of legislation that is unrelated to the matter at hand.  My mother calls this “PORK”.  She says that we have to get rid of the “PORK”  in government and just say it like it is and legislate out in the open.  In this case getting the “PORK” out would have been better for the Northern Rockies gray wolf who now faces extinction at the hands of Montana, Idaho and whomever else decides to take aim at it. If they do it here, were else will they get away with it?

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