Ed
Tokyo Japan
>
>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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