To Whom it May Concern,
Your Draft Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Modifications to
Regulations Implementing Interagency Cooperation Under the Endangered
Species Act (published at 73 Fed. Reg. 47868, Aug. 15, 2008 is a sordid example
of ideologically-based, political wordsmithing and cynicism that has nothing to do
with endangered species, their ever-dwindling habitat and the intent of the
Endangered Species Act. I oppose the proposed rule change.
I guess I was under a wrong impression that Environmental Assessments should
have SOME science in them! Maybe even some "costs" and "benefits" at least
imagined? I see no hypotheses, no testing, no evaluation of data and no
conclusions based upon anything remotely related to scientific inquiry. Oh, yes,
the Bush Administration doesn't "believe" in science, I forgot! Why should I even
look for science in its own self-serving rules change being promulgated
at "midnight" of a disastrous Administration. All I see in this so-
called "assessment" is declarative rubbish and assumptions that governmental
actions will never have any negative impact at all on any part of our environment!
This "midnight" rules change proposed by the Bush minions and lawyers is more
than mischievous; it is an attempt to gut the intent of the ESA law, a law which is
supported by a majority of Americans. Your writers have checked their moral
compass at the door. They have no regard for the interconnectedness of all
species on earth. They glory in mental gymnastics and their convoluted
arguments with the only regard for consequences being political... and their own
careers, out of government, thankfully....
Finally, I object to the "stacked deck"-- that you all will approve this proposed
change to ESA no matter what any of us say.
Thank you,
Sharron Sell
Comment on FR Doc # E8-25678
This is comment on Proposed Rule
Interagency Cooperation Under the Endangered Species Act
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