Closed border bill would harm endangered species

[Willinois]

This is shameless. Republicans will find any excuse to attack the endangered species act.

At writer at NRDC's blog warns about a bill that would exempt the Department of Homeland Security from "complying with more than 30 laws within 100 miles of any border, land, or sea."

Quote:Not surprisingly, the Endangered Species Act is among the many environmental laws this bill would waive. And it wouldn’t just exempt border activities from one or two of the Act's provisions—it would waive them all! In other words, DHS wouldn’t even be required to consider the impacts of its actions on endangered and threatened species or attempt to minimize those impacts. The result? The area covered by this bill, which is so huge it includes the homes of nearly 2/3 of all Americans, would be transformed into a dead zone, and the imperiled species that live there would be pushed one step closer to extinction.

This would impact "wilderness areas, national wildlife refuges, national forests, national monuments, state parks, and hundreds of miles within the national park system."

Simply obscene.

[nofurylike]

they are relentless.
insane.

thank you for informing us of that, Willinois.