Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
170 Conservation Groups Urge Senate to Reject Zinke for Interior Secretary
One hundred seventy conservation groups today urged the U.S. Senate
to reject Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) as the next interior secretary.
Senators will vote in the coming weeks on whether to place Zinke in
charge of the nation’s more than 1,500 endangered species, as well as
more than 500 million acres of public lands and minerals leasing for
oil, gas and coal across the country and in our oceans. Today’s letter notes that Zinke earned just a 3 percent rating
from the League of Conservation Voters during his two years in
Congress. At his Jan. 17 nomination hearing, he offered no indication
that he would manage the Department of the Interior differently from
what his congressional voting record indicates: that he consistently put
special interests ahead of the nation’s wildlife, natural heritage and
climate. “Zinke’s voting record qualifies him to be an exterminator, not the
chief protector of America’s endangered animals and beautiful public
lands,” said KierĂ¡n Suckling, executive director of the Center for
Biological Diversity, one group that signed the letter. “Anyone who
cares about public lands, protecting wildlife and halting the climate
crisis should understand that Zinke — and Trump’s corrupt brand of
politics — will take us in exactly the wrong direction.”...press release
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Center for Biological Diversity a "conservation group?" That's a good one! Only if you preface it with "litigious."
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