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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jan 29, 2017, 04:48 PM Jan 2017

If Republicans Gut Endangered Species Act, Arizona Could Lose Big Time

Former President Barack Obama once lectured Republicans not long after taking office in 2009, "Elections have consequences." Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House, the consequences for the environment could be devastating.

Specifically, GOPers are eyeing the Endangered Species Act of 1973 for extinction.

Republicans have targeted the act for years with little success. But according to a recent report by the Washington Post, Republicans see Donald Trump's ascendancy as an opportunity to gut the law for good.

The article quotes House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) as crowing that he would "love to invalidate" the law. He said it has been "hijacked" and "has never been used for the rehabilitation of species," but rather, he contended, "for control of the land."

Read more: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/if-republicans-gut-endangered-species-act-arizona-could-lose-big-time-9005336

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If Republicans Gut Endangered Species Act, Arizona Could Lose Big Time (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2017 OP
Same for us here in Nevada. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. Same for us here in Nevada.
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 04:55 PM
Jan 2017

Just had a Eco Sensitive area in North Eastern Nevada covered by this Act. Bishop's Church runs one of the Largest Cattle Ranch operations in this region and they are really pissed off about complying.

Their always seems to be a back story with these Rethugs and their motivations. Similar things are happening in South West Utah especially Iron and Washington Counties.

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