Oh, and what can be done with reference to the climate for great things. For example, the protection of species and undermine the ban in Bedeuntungslosigkeit because the existing rules now do with the climate much too complicated. And anyway, they were always a nuisance. In a remarkably open way this can be read at msnbc :
Bush wants to loosen species protection laws
plan includes scientists from the decision about the situation of a species from
Washington - The Bush administration said Monday it plans to let federal authorities ends in the future decide for themselves whether harm highways, dams, mines and other construction projects endangered animals and plants could.
The proposal, which does not require the approval of Congress would be performed the required independent opinion, the government scientists over the past 35 years have reduced. Developers welcome the plan, while environmentalists deride him. Minister of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
said late Monday the changes would be necessary to ensure that the Endangered Species Act [ESA] will not be used as a back door to regulate the gases blamed for global warming. In May, the polar bear, the first kind, because of global warming classified as threatened. It is expected that rising temperatures, the sea ice from which the survival of the bear depends on bringing to melt.
"These changes are intended to reduce the number of unnecessary consultations under the ESA so that more time and resources to protect the most vulnerable species may be paid," the Interior Ministry said in its announcement.
"The existing regulations create unnecessary conflicts and delays," Kempthorne added. "The proposed legislation will continue to protect species while focusing the consultation process and to the actions of federal agencies, for which possible consequences could be related to these actions in connection, and it seems reasonable that these self-assured. The result should be a process that is less time-consuming and more effective use of our resources. "
The federal bill would deter the emissions from projects that contribute to global warming and its effect on species and habitats to assess.
The Interior Ministry's current decision on the polar bear as an example. While polar bears are classified as due to the melting of their Meereseislebensraums as endangered, it argues that scientists "can make a direct causal link between greenhouse gas emissions and distant observations of one influences that affect a kind," at this time no.
"Therefore it is inappropriate to advise a distant authority in respect of an action that releases emissions, since it is not possible, emissions with influences to a certain species, such as polar bears, something to do, "was announced by the Ministry.
Kempthorne has instead asked the legislature to get involved in any specific act on climate change, instead of the species protection law, which dates back to 1973.
biggest overhaul since 1988
The changes represent the biggest overhaul of the Endangered Species Act since 1988; they do would be full of rules that complement what they have not reached the conservative Republicans in Congress: Stop Some environmental reports, property developers and authorities for delays and cost increases on many projects to blame.
The changes would apply to any project financed a federal agency that built or approved. Experts from the government to produce these reports on time, tens of thousands every year.
"If they would become effective, the amendments, the safety net of habitat protection, on which we rely to protect endangered fish, animal and plant species in the last 35 years and to restore to seriously weaken it." Said John Kosyack, executive director of the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming initiative.
"The new rules take decision-making on the inclusion of vulnerable Species from the hands of scientists and experts in federal agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and give them instead authorities to work on projects that could be affected by a negative absorption, "added Carl Pope, director of the Sierra Club.
Under the current law must be federal with experts of the Fish and Wildlife Service or to advise the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine whether a project affects an endangered species or damage the habitat, even if damage seems unlikely. These initial reports usually results in concessions that the 1353 animals and plants in the USA are classified as endangered, protects better, and decide whether a more formal analysis is appropriate.
design: Authorities have said knowledge
The Ministry of Interior that such consultations are no longer necessary because federal agencies have acquired their own knowledge, and examine their own building projects themselves, the 30-page draft shows.
"We believe that the federal agencies will stay with those provisions on the safe side." Says the draft.
The Head of the Fish and Wildlife Service, H. Dale Hall, said the changes would help skills to focus on projects that have serious consequences for species. "We try to be more efficient, which means to make any discussions that have a difference to the kind of episode." Said Hall.
"We are not good stewards of our resources.", He added, "if we require advice in situations where the possible effects on a species either unlikely to properly classify or exclusively beneficial, or only a remote risk for the risk of a species or habitat bring. "
The draft is subject to a 30-day public discussion before Ministry of Interior completed, whereby the government will have enough time to implement it even before the presidential elections. A new administration could freeze any still pending arrangements to exploiting or withdraw, a process that could take months. Congress also could overturn the rules through a law, but that could take even longer.
The draft was drawn up by lawyers most of the Main Committee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce and the Interior Ministry, a source at the National Marine Fisheries Service, according to. The experts of the two authorities were involved only in the last week, the official said.
conducted between 1998 and 2002 by the Fish and Wildlife Service 300 000 consultations. The National Marine Fisheries Service, which evaluates projects that relate to marine life, establish each year, about 1.300 appraisals.
The reports helped species like the bald eagle, Florida panther and Whooping Cranes to protect. A handbook of the Federal Government in 1998 describes the consultations as "some of the most valuable and powerful tools to get recorded species.
The for and against changes
In recent years, but complained of some federal agencies and private developers, that the process in delays and increased construction costs resulting.
"We always had concerns with regard to the need of adjusting and improving the administration of the process," said Joe Nelson, a lawyer for the National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition, a community of interest to builders and the paper and farming industry.
Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, described the proposed changes illegal.
"The proposed regulation is another in a continuous stream of proposals to cut short the characteristic of our environmental laws through the back door to, "she said. "If this proposed rule was in force, they would have our ways to save the bald eagle, the grizzly bear and the gray whale undermined.
The Bush administration and Congress have attempted with mixed success to change the law.
adopted in 2003, the government similar rules that would have allowed authorities to approve new pesticides and projects to reduce fire risk without regard to question the opinion of scientists of the risk of endangered species or habitats. The pesticide regulation was later overturned in court. The Ministry of Interior and the Forest Service are at the moment because the scheme sued for forest fire prevention. would
2005 Congress passed a law that made similar changes to the ESA, but this failed in the Senate.
The initiator of this law, Richard Pobo, R-Calif., The AP said on Monday that it will harm any species and any habitat that public authorities must assess the impact of their projects themselves.
"No way they can rubber stamp everything because they will end up in court for every decision," he said.
But internal investigations by the National Marine Fisheries Service and Fish and Wildlife Service to conclude that about Half of all unilateral evaluations by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, the measures for forest fire prevention and safe for classifying protected species either were not legally or scientifically valid.
These were among the changes approved by 2003rd
"This is the fox guarding the hen house. The interests of agencies will outweigh the interests of the species. "Said Eric Glitzenstein, the lawyer, the environmental groups in the trial of the regulations is of forest fire prevention. "What the plan, the Endangered Species Act is to make meaningless."
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