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November 21, 2008

Bush Administration Attempts to Weaken Endangered Species Act
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The Washington Post reports the Bush administration is finalizing
changes to the Endangered Species Act that would ensure that federal
agencies would not have to take global warming into account when
assessing risks to imperiled plants and animals. The new regulations
would eliminate a longstanding provision of the Endangered Species Act
that requires an independent scientific review of any federal project
that could affect a protected species. On Thursday, White House Press
Secretary Dana Perino dismissed the importance of the Endangered Species
Act.

Dana Perino: “I know conceptually what we support, and I know that the
Endangered Species Act is a tangled web that doesn’t actually help
support any species, including our own.”



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