RE: NANFA-- Bush and the ESA

Whitlock, Steve (Steve_Whitlock_at_jdedwards.com)
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:22:20 -0600

What do you all think about the possibility of allowing citizens to sue the
federal government for a lack of military involvement in third-world crisis
situations. (ie, not protecting people, instead of fish.) How about the
possibility of suing the federal government for taking too much of my income
in the form of taxes? (ie, taking from me and giving it to a fish I don't
necessarily care for.)

In short, if we can sue the federal government there are a few suites I'd
like to see on the docket in addition to some EPA ones. If we can't sue the
federal government, let's make the playing field level and have it be that
way in all cases. If we can only sue parts of the federal
government.......who's to say what those parts are and what those parts are
not?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay DeLong
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 10:42 AM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Bush and the ESA

>ENDANGERED SPECIES SUITS TARGETED
>The Bush administration is asking Congress to remove from
>the Endangered Species Act a provision that allows environmental
>groups and others to sue the Interior Department to get rare
>plants and animals listed as endangered. The budget provision
>would still permit citizen lawsuits but effectively render
>them meaningless by placing severe limits on what the agency
>can do or spend to comply with them, according to Interior
>spokesman Mark Pfeifle.
>Source: Associated Press
>http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04122001/ap_species_43009.asp

AND

Norton may get sole discretion over species protection
Friday, April 13, 2001
By Theo Stein, The Denver Post
The Bush administration wants to
give the Fish and Wildlife Service
the power to ignore citizen lawsuits
filed under the Endangered Species
Act, giving Interior Secretary Gale
Norton sole discretion over which
species qualify for federal
protection. ....
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04132001/krt_norton_43046.asp

I had hoped for better than this, that we'd be moving into a new age of
awareness and responsibility, but now I'm ashamed to have George W Bush as
my President and Gale Norton as my country's Secretary of the Interior.

--
Jay DeLong
Olympia, WA




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