You’re allowed to complain about the air quality because it is a health hazard. What you’re not allowed to do is blame Canada as if this is a targeted attack. Everyone should be blaming politicians from both countries who refuse to fund environmental and climate scientists
George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its final regulation altering the definition of "harm" under the ESA. The revised definition largely excludes habitat impacts and will make it much more challenging to conserve endangered species. More: https://t.co/wRwvYVtMtR
The Trump Administration change limits the reach of the 50-year-old Endangered Species Act, which is credited with helping to save the bald eagle, California condor and numerous other animals and plants from extinction. https://t.co/f2A1cwPhP9
The Trump administration has now made it legal to destroy the habitats of endangered species, effectively repealing a core provision of the Endangered Species Act.
Trump is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. This is a big deal, and he must be stopped.
For half a century, harming a protected animal meant you couldn’t destroy the place it lives. The Supreme Court backed that up in 1995. Six justices said the obvious thing, that if you wipe out an animal’s home, you wipe out the animal.
Trump wants to throw this out so his friends can pave over the last nesting ground of a vanishing species and call it legal, as long as they don’t personally kill the animal.
Starve it, drill it, mine it. Go right ahead. It’s a permission slip for oil and mining companies to speed up extinction, and habitat loss is already the number one reason species disappear.
This rule ignores the plain text of the law Congress wrote. The 1995 ruling is still on the books, and a rule this lawless is exactly what judges are there to strike down.
Congress must act too. I’ll push for a vote to overturn this, and I’ll fight any spending bill that tries to lock these rollbacks in.
And you have a role. Public comments already are hundreds of thousands strong against this.
Keep the pressure on.
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Listen to the haunting silence of an ecosystem gradually dying out over half a century.
This acoustic profile captures the progressive erasure of birdsong, serving as a stark and alarming warning of catastrophic biodiversity loss. Listen closely to realize exactly what we have lost.
Happy birthday to the country that has detained kids, ripped families apart, killed protesters, and have been terrorists to it's own ppl and other counties but protects pedophiles, rapists, war criminals and racists. The USA is a corrupt country
No, congressmen do not work harder than anyone else. They spend half a year on vacation. They go home early all the time. They can literally skip work whenever they want for no reason and still get paid. Nobody does less work than the average American congressman.
I DO NOT think people understand that global warming doesn’t mean “no cold weather ever.” It means a warming planet destabilizes weather patterns, causing more extreme weather. This has been explained for decades and people still don’t get it.