Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Greens Object to "Science-based" Wolf Decision:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_08-2009_03_14.shtml#1237037046
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced this week that he would not
reverse the Bush Administration's decision to remove gray wolves in
the northern Rockies from the endangered species list. The Washington
Post [1]reports on the resulting controversy:
The wolf proposal was published just weeks before Bush left office,
then suspended under a broad directive by White House Chief of
Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Interior spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said Salazar had followed the
unanimous recommendation of Fish and Wildlife Service scientists in
setting the new policy, rather than letting political factors
influence him. "This was a decision based on science," she said. .
. .
"Making the decision to adopt the Bush administration's flawed
delisting proposal the same week that the president pledged his
commitment to the Endangered Species Act certainly calls into
question whether the Interior Department was coordinating as
closely as one would expect to have done with the White House,"
said Bob Irvin, senior vice president for conservation programs at
the advocacy group Defenders of Wildlife. "This was a controversy
that did not need to happen."
One House Democrat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, framed
it in even more blunt political terms. "I just don't see what this
does for us," the lawmaker said. "Here we are alienating people who
did the most -- who did a lot to help us in the last election."
References
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303211_pf.html
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