From CREDO Action:
Tell Secretaries Salazar and Locke: Protect Endangered Species
Dear Friend,
Over the course of eight years, the Bush administration made a number of savage changes to environmental regulations, including those that protect endangered species. Some of the worst cuts came in the twilight of the administration, as Bush officials rammed through midnight regulations that decimated protections for over 1,300 species close to extinction – including polar bears, wolves and manatees.
For example, one regulation allows federal agencies to oversee the construction of new roads and highways without ever checking with scientific experts to see if such projects would harm endangered species. Regulations like these are reckless for our environment, and they must be overturned.
The good news is that Congress has empowered Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to overturn these insidious regulations – but time is running out: They only have until May 9th.
I just took action and signed a petition asking Secretary Salazar and Secretary Locke to overturn every last Bush regulation that erodes protections for endangered species. I hope you will, too.
Please have a look and take action.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/endangered_species/?r_by=3740-1017573-A3_54Hx&rc=paste
Thanks!
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 5, 2009.
Is this animal nut day or something? The polar bear populations have been rising not falling. They were being targeted for protection inorder to stop drilling in alaska and to prop up the global warming hoax.
The stats for the other two animals I do not know but I bet they have a similar history. I would trust Bush long before I would trust an animal rights nut case.
Bush was a proven liar and betrayed real conservatives..
If he was a real deal conservative he would have gotten rid of these “environmental regulations” instead of tinkering with them. Let the states decide what to do. Hopefully they would have been free-market an pro private property.
I think liar is too strong a word for general use here but it might apply to some issues. You cannot always get what you desire as president. If Bush actively did the opposite of what he promised without a good reason then I would call something a lie. He promised not to get into foreign matters but then 911 happened and everything changed on that front.