Donald McEachin

Policies that degrade the environment may be cheap or easy today, but in the long run we all pay the price.

Make no mistake, the Section 7 consultation process and the ESA, in general, have been incredibly effective in preventing extinction.

We are throwing away opportunities to better understand our world, and to make life better for ourselves and for our children.

When a species disappears, the world becomes a poorer and less interesting place, because we have lost a unique and valuable piece of God's creation.

Today's hearing is the latest in a series of attempts by the Majority to blame bedrock environmental laws for holding up infrastructure projects, despite copious amounts of evidence to the contrary.