Thursday, June 30, 2005

Biological Disaster

In a sort of Post Script to the entry I just posted on the threats to the ESA, here is something I just found from the Center for Biological Diversity, POMBO'S ENDANGERED SPECIES BILL REVEALED. This article, which begins thus:

A summary of Richard Pombo's long awaited Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005 was revealed today. Despite its name, the bill does precious little to help species recover. It eliminates essential habitat protections, buries wildlife agencies under a mountain of costly, inefficient bureaucracy, and encourages industry groups to paralyze the government with lawsuits over Byzantine paperwork rules. It also threatens to throw government regulation of all kinds into chaos by overturning traditional property law to make the federal government pay to regulate private property. This provision would quickly bankrupt federal conservation budgets and spawn lawsuits challenging all federal regulations.
contains a detailed review of this biological, economic, and bureaucratic disaster.

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