The U.S. Senate is poised to consider a bill that could strip America’s endangered wildlife of vital safeguards.
Please go to http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/esa/action.asp?step=2&item=53031 and urge your senators to reject any legislation that would weaken the Endangered Species Act.
The Endangered Species Act has provided a crucial safety net for wildlife on the brink of extinction for more than three decades. Ninety-eight percent of the species protected by this landmark law — including the bald eagle, American alligator and Florida panther — still roam the wild today, and many are stable or improving.
Yet last September, the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 3824), sponsored by Representative Pombo of California, that would undercut this bedrock environmental law.
Representative Pombo’s bill would eliminate protections of critical habitat for endangered and threatened species, exempt the pesticide industry from wildlife safety regulations and authorize millions of dollars in payouts to wealthy developers, oil and gas companies and other special interests in return for not killing or injuring endangered and threatened species.
Now, the fight to save endangered species has moved to the Senate.
Please go to http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/esa/action.asp?step=2&item=53031 and tell your senators to block this all-out effort to undermine the Endangered Species Act.
