White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Tuesday sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies, ordering a stop to all pending regulations until a legal and
Grey wolves
policy review can be conducted by the Obama administration.A rule that would eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains except for those in Wyoming was scheduled to be published on January 27. Now it will fall under review with the new administration.
Among others, the Bush administration recently finalized rules that significantly weaken the Endangered Species Act, allow for mining deposits to be dumped within 100 feet of flowing streams and exempts large-scale factory farms from notifying government officials when they release unsafe levels of toxic emissions into the community. Earthjustice, a public interest law firm, filed suit against all of these rules.
President Obama has stopped the destructive temper tantrum thrown by George W. Bush in his remaining days as president, but as we see above, many horrifically damaging rules were finalized before Bush left office.
Go here to read the statement released by Earthjustice regarding their lawsuit.
HT: Witch1
5 Comments
January 24, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Thank You Lady Z….Blessings
January 25, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Wolves are overabundant. Deal with it. Kidding. I live in a state that has an overabundance of deer. Rather than allow the wolf population to grow (I have never seen a wolf) we increase the hunting season for hillbillies that likes killing stuff.
January 26, 2009 at 6:26 am
I know, Sabyen91. We have huge Ford and Chevy trucks with those god awful bumperstickers that read, “Save an elk, kill a wolf.” Isn’t that the most stupid thing you’ve ever heard? It should read “Save an elk now by killing a wolf so I can kill it later.” I mean really….
They know nothing of what the life cycles of animals are or about natural selection. (can I say that or is that blasphemy! gasp) It frustrates me to no end.
February 28, 2009 at 11:33 am
I heard a bunch of the more red neck type salesman talking at the company Xmas party a while back. Seems a couple of guys who were logging up in northern WI decided to go in on a Saturday to retrieve their log skidder, about a half mile hike down the logging road.
The guy said he heard a noise and turned around and about 20 yards behind him was a wolf. He kept heading for the skidder and the wolf followed. By the time he got there he had wet himself (something I’m sure he wouldn’t have wanted anyone to know) and he climbed into the cab and locked himself in.
The wolf came up and put its paws on the step and watched him for a bit. It then started to call. Within 15 minutes there were 9 more wolves there. They wandered around the skidder and yipped at him. Finally he got the thing started and drove out. The wolves followed for a bit barking and nipping at the tires before heading off into the woods.
The salesmen were hooting and huffing about how dangerous the whole situation had been. I chuckled. They demanded to know what was so funny and I told them if the big bad wolf had been so dangerous, how come it just followed him for over a quarter of a mile?
They said, well yeah but then he called in the pack. Yeah? Sounds like he brought them in to laugh at the strange two leg that had peed himself and then hid in the machine.
Needless to say, the subject got changed.
April 8, 2009 at 2:29 pm
It was the pee that attracted all those wolves. They thought he was gonner
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