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Bush Administration Proposes Draft Regulations Gutting
Protections for Nation's Endangered Species;
Proposal Would Exempt All Greenhouse Gas Emissions
From Endangered Species Act Oversight
PORTLAND, Ore.— Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today proposed regulations that would eviscerate our nation’s most successful wildlife law by exempting thousands of federal activities, including those that generate greenhouse gases, from review under the Endangered Species Act.
“The proposed regulations are an absolute disaster for the nation’s endangered species,” said Noah Greenwald, science director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Secretary Kempthorne seems determined to establish a legacy of environmental destruction and extinction and surpass even James Watt as the most anti-environmental interior secretary in U.S. history.”
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Contact: Noah Greenwald
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