ARTICLES: March 26, 2007 | |
A Major New Threat To All Businesses/Industries by Jim Sims | |
Dear Colleague: Environmental extremists and activist lawyers are pushing the federal government to add the Polar Bear to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. Such a listing would have major negative implications for virtually every business and industry operation in the United States. The ESA is a very powerful law and could subject virtually any human activity in ALL 50 STATES to review and regulation by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) bureaucrats if the Polar Bear is listed as threatened or endangered. This will essentially declare "open season" for environmental lawyers to sue to block virtually any project that involves carbon dioxide emissions. What are we doing to stop this? 1) Comments To USFWS ===> ACTION ITEM: File comments from your organization opposing this listing. The comment period ends on April 9. ===> ACTION ITEM: Let Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne know of your opposition to the environmental activists' ADA petition. 2) Grassroots Campaign The Roundtable is joining with our sister non-profit advocacy organizations, the Partnership for America and Americans for American Energy, to wage aggressive grassroots and grasstops campaigns to stop this listing petition. 3) Giving You Tools To Act On Your Own We will soon send you additional talking points, backgrounders, information sharing tools and a powerful online "Grassroots Power System" website that you can use to help your members submit their own individual comments for the record opposing the polar bear listing. Stay tuned! Jim Sims ________________________________________ | |