The comment period on proposed changes to regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act expires today.
Click through if you'd like to see what 100,000 public comments look like when printed and put into boxes. And there's still time to submit your own comments through www.regulations.gov.
If you'd like to see what the Ecological Society of America had to say about the proposed changes, you can read the quick summary in this post and follow the link to the full statement.
Among the provisions included in the proposed changes is one that would allow federal agencies to avoid consultation with the Fish & Wildlife Service when the effects on a listed species or its designated critical habitat "[a]re not capable of being meaningfully identified or detected in a manner that permits evaluation." And who gets to make the decision about whether that criterion is met? You guessed it. The agency who wants to do something that will affect a listed species. (source)On Friday, the Natural Resources Defense Council delivered 100,000 public comments on the proposed changes. Since the Fish and Wildlife Service would not accept comments by e-mail, NRDC staff members delivered them in boxes.1
Click through if you'd like to see what 100,000 public comments look like when printed and put into boxes. And there's still time to submit your own comments through www.regulations.gov.
If you'd like to see what the Ecological Society of America had to say about the proposed changes, you can read the quick summary in this post and follow the link to the full statement.
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