Today, Juliet Eilporin of the Washington Post tells us something none of us will be surprised to hear. The Bush administration is gutting the Endangered Species Act.
Money quote:
...his administration has placed 59 domestic species on the endangered list, almost the exact number that his father listed during each of his four years in office.
Hits a bit close to home:
And some species have vanished. The Lake Sammamish kokanee, a landlocked sockeye salmon, went extinct in 2001 after being denied an emergency listing, and genetically pure Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits disappeared last year after Interior declined to protect critical habitat for the species.
Oh, yeah. There's a petition.
And here's the Web site for the whole environmental network, they have LOTS of petitions.
You're welcome. That's what I'm here for.
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