| ||||||
| Environment Debate and defend the issues our world faces on topics such as global warming, environmental pollution, and the many proposals that might help solve these problems. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
06-27-2007, 03:16 AM
| #1 (permalink) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizen   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Finger Lakes
Posts: 23
 |  Amending environmental laws to help business ... In Oregon, a battleground state that the Bush-Cheney ticket had lost by less than half of 1 percent, drought-stricken farmers and ranchers were about to be cut off from the irrigation water that kept their cropland and pastures green. Federal biologists said the Endangered Species Act left the government no choice: The survival of two imperiled species of fish was at stake. Law and science seemed to be on the side of the fish. Then the vice president stepped in. First Cheney looked for a way around the law, aides said. Next he set in motion a process to challenge the science protecting the fish, according to a former Oregon congressman who lobbied for the farmers. Because of Cheney's intervention, the government reversed itself and let the water flow in time to save the 2002 growing season, declaring that there was no threat to the fish. What followed was the largest fish kill the West had ever seen, with tens of thousands of salmon rotting on the banks of the Klamath River. Characteristically, Cheney left no tracks. ... more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19448394/ (long read -- enjoy) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sponsored Links |
|
| Bookmarks |
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:15 PM.
