NPCA hoping for brighter times for the national parks under a Biden administration/Rebecca Latson file
After "four brutal years" for the National Park System under the Trump administration, the National Parks Conservation Association is looking forward to working with the incoming Biden team.
According to the parks advocacy group, under President Trump more than one hundred environmental safeguards have been rolled back, including the Clean Water Rule, numerous Endangered Species Act regulations, and the National Environmental Policy Act, a 50-year-old law that has given people a voice in how their public lands are used. These will be among the first policies NPCA works to reinstate under a new Biden administration.
“Though our country is going through a period of change, our national parks can help bridge political differences, as they’ve done so many times before," said NPCA President Theresa Pierno. "We’ve seen the power our parks have to unite us as Congress and the current administration came together to pass critical legislation to fix our parks and protect millions of acres of public lands. Our country needs bipartisan efforts like these more than ever.
"...The last four years have been brutal for our national parks and public lands," continued Pierno. "Clean air safeguards were erased, park wildlife was endangered, and clean water protections were undermined."
The NPCA chief listed additional problems she saw with how the Trump administration approached the national parks, pointing to the lack of a Senate-confirmed director of the National Park Service as well as "(T)urmoil and pro-industry appointees at the top levels of the Interior Department, Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management" that forced those agencies to put development of public lands in the United States above "protecting our national parks and neighboring communities."
“We have serious work ahead of us to undo the damage that has been done to our national parks and public lands," said Pierno. "But we are ready. We will forge key relationships with the Biden administration, as well as with new allies and returning park champions in Congress, and work together on behalf of our national parks.”
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Won't stop them from filing suits willy nilly. Its what they do. NPCA isn't about the parks it is about providing a steady stream of income to NPCA and its lawyers.- primarily at tax payer expense either directly or indirectly.
Well, I would much rather give my tax dollars to NPCA than to pay for a freaking border wall - one, I might add, that happens to be ripping out the guts of parks like Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Ripping the guts? LOL - Sad that you would care about a few cactus (among 10's if not hundreds of thousands) ahead if the American people. Not to mention the women and children trafficed over the border. So lets send money to the NPCA lawyers and let the Mexican women be sold as sex slaves.
Yeah, sure, ecbuck, like any of us believe you really give a, well, let's just say a hoot, about Mexican women or children, whether they're being sold as sex slaves or otherwise.
If you actually cared about anybody of hispanic extraction or any person of color, any color, or saw any as human in any way at all, then you would be justifiably outraged by the updated data now showing that, of the many hundreds of migrant children who were separated from their families and caregivers and stuffed into cages along the border, over six hundred of those children, with nearly twenty percent of them being under the age of five, cannot be identified and thus might never be reunited with their parents.
And, let's face it, neither are you or were you going to ever be sending any of your money to help with either cause, not the NPCA nor the women and children on the border. In your cultish mind, you don't have a dog in either fight do you? But, thanks for your comment, lol.
Hump, you need to do a little research on who built those "cages" and why those parents can't be found.
Too bad people immediately default to "sad you care about cactus more than Americans" and "no one believes you care about Mexicans" type comments.
Help us out, Eric. If you have some news headlines please announce it to the world, don't just hold onto it for a tease & disclose. And the particular cactus I've seen mentioned online are legally protected.
What news headline would that be Rick?