If this is a priority, we have to put resources in it. We have to think of conservation.
I am wondering if you have thoughts about that. You know, Director Ashe mentioned, well, that doesn't happen now.
What about the endangered jobs act? What about making sure we take care of employment?
We in the West refuse to be a zoo. We have to feed the citizens; they have to have jobs.
we have to make a determination whether a species is facing an imminent threat, that is, endangered, or whether they are...
It is about Federal authority because Congress granted Federal agencies to make those decisions.
I think there could be room in the reform, whether it is Alaska or other States where you are the only State impacted wi...
the law could allow that if we amended the law.
So I think the law has flexibility.
Too often, as my colleagues in the Senate have already mentioned, the ESA has been used and abused, more as a political ...
we can take into consideration national security; we can take into consideration economic impacts or social impacts.
We had an announcement in terms of offshore development where a large company, Shell, in terms of responsibly developing...
I think it just seems like a limitless approach to doing this.
there seems like there is no limit to the number of species that you could list in an Arctic State like ours.
That kind of Federal permitting delays doesn't help anyone in our country.
Recovering less than 2 percent of listed species is not good enough, and we must do better.
it becomes almost a craps shoot; three judges who don't know much about any of our States.
As such, many power plants had already shuttered or retrofitted because of the rule's requirement.
