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Interior Secretary Kempthorne gets award for record refusal to protect endangered species
The Center for Biological Diversity yesterday presented Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne with its first ever "Rubber Dodo" award, in honor of going a record one year and 90 days without listing a new species as endangered or threatened.The previous record holder was Ronald Reagan's notorious Interior Secretary James Watt, who went a comparatively wimpy 376 days without listing a new species. Meanwhile, the Fish and Wildlife Service has classified 279 species as "candidates" for listing, because they're in danger of extinction, but haven't yet been given protection by Secretary Kempthorne.
"That waiting list could turn into a 'too-late' list without government action, as species in dire need of protection go extinct," the Center said in an email to its supporters.
According to the Center's Kieran Suckling, some of the endangered species waiting for Dirk to stay the hand of permanent annihilation are the elfin wood warbler of Puerto Rico, the Pacific fisher (a wolverine-like animal that prowls the sylvan coasts of the Northwest), and the red knot, an extraordinary bird whose tale of decline is one of the saddest and weirdest.
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News You Already Knew
Not surprising: Rescue and recovery workers at ground zero have developed asthma at a rate that is 12 times what would be expected for adults, according to findings released yesterday […]
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Feel the Glass Between Your Toes
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Sudan Impact
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Mellifluous news
Have you listened to Grist’s podcast lately? You should.
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Bush admin to make mountaintop-removal mining easier, and more
Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: No Peaking Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Refine! Be That Way! All […]
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Green Goes the Lower Ninth
The Nation reports on sustainable revitalization of a New Orleans neighborhood Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still, slowly, rebuilding. But the people of the ravaged Lower Ninth […]
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And Now for Something Completely Familiar
China’s environment still terribly polluted, getting worse Almost nowhere else on earth today is a source for so much environmental gloom and doom as China. To sum up: It’s bad. […]
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Umbra on attracting wildlife
Hi Umbra, I agree with your analysis of bird feeders, and would like to share a win-win solution. I have a huge variety of birds that visit my yard year-round. […]
