Save the Endangered Species Act!

[UPDATE] Tomorrow has been designated call-in day. Make sure your congress people hear from you!


Even when they're on vacation, it's always something.

On December 15, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and our own Blanche Lincoln (D?-AR) introduced S. 2110, titled, with the perversity we have come to expect, the Collaboration and Recovery of Endangered Species Act. It is a companion to Richard Pombo's successful House version. If you noticed the names mentioned so far, you probably already have some idea what to expect...

Please e-mail your Senators from the CBD's S. 2110 Action Alert page. Or send a letter, fax, or phone them.

[UPDATED from 1/3/2006]: Here is a great companion piece from Tom Friedman.

Sorry, but being green, focusing the nation on greater energy efficiency and conservation, is not some girlie-man issue. It is actually the most tough-minded, geostrategic, pro-growth and patriotic thing we can do. Living green is not for sissies. Sticking with oil, and basically saying that a country that can double the speed of microchips every 18 months is somehow incapable of innovating its way to energy independence - that is for sissies, defeatists and people who are ready to see American values eroded at home and abroad.

[UPDATE #2] The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is rallying to defeat Pombo in his next election!