AR-News: (U.S.) Endangered Species Act attacked

[Mary Finelli]

ENDANGERED, WILL ROBINSON!
Endangered Species Act Under Attack Again
Daily Grist, April 28, 2004


Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) is once again on the attack against the 
Endangered Species Act.  Nearly a decade ago, during the "Gingrich 
Revolution," Pombo was one of two reps chosen by the GOP leadership to 
assault the bill, but the "reforms" he proposed then were so radical that 
they never came close to passing.  Now Pombo -- chair of the House Resources 
Committee, which oversees the ESA -- is changing his tactics, taking a 
piecemeal approach.  Today his committee is holding a hearing on a bill 
sponsored by ally Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), which would forbid the Interior 
Department from protecting the habitat of an endangered species until a 
"practicable, economically feasible, and determinable" species-recovery plan 
was developed, a provision enviros say would, in effect, delay any 
designation of critical habitat indefinitely.  In advance of the hearing, 
Pombo issued a seven-page position paper bashing the ESA, citing cases of 
"failure" that are disputed by virtually everyone but Pombo's ideological 
cohorts.

straight to the source:  Contra Costa Times, Mike Taugher, 28 Apr 2004
http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2375

straight to the source:  The San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, 
Erica Werner, 28 Apr 2004
http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2376

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