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16824
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Former Monsanto employee now heads US Fish & Wildlife!!
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so she wants to spray bee killing pesticides on all our Nat'l wildlife areas, priceless! Monsanto strikes again. Senate Confirms Unqualified Industry Shill to Run Fish and Wildlife Service Skipwith Continues Trump Administration’s Unraveling of Key Agency for Addressing Extinction Crisis WASHINGTON— The U.S. Senate voted largely along party lines today to confirm former Monsanto employee Aurelia Skipwith as director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency charged with protecting and recovering endangered animals and plants. The confirmation breaks with decades of tradition established by presidential administrations of both parties in that Skipwith has neither education nor experience in fisheries and wildlife management. Under current U.S. law, the president cannot appoint a person to run the Service unless the person is “by reason of scientific education and experience, knowledgeable in the principles of fisheries and wildlife management.” “In the midst of a mass extinction crisis, Senate Republicans just approved the most unqualified director in Fish and Wildlife Service history,” said Stephanie Kurose, an endangered species policy specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “They seem to have no qualms about helping this anti-environment administration do even more damage to our nation’s natural heritage.” For the past two years, Skipwith has served as deputy assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior. During her tenure at the Department, Skipwith has repeatedly put the interests of the pesticide industry ahead of imperiled wildlife. In spring 2017 the Service scrapped the first nationwide biological reviews that assessed the impacts of pesticides on endangered species. In August 2018 it reversed a 2014 decision prohibiting bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically modified, pesticide-resistant crops on national wildlife refuges. Skipwith was also instrumental in an effort to undermine safeguards for endangered wildlife in Appalachia, including the Guyandotte River and Big Sandy crayfish, to green-light mountaintop coal mines owned by political benefactors of the Trump administration. She was involved in efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act and strip protection from many of our nation’s most vulnerable species, including the grizzly bear, American burying beetle, Mexican wolf and dunes sagebrush lizard. “Skipwith’s abysmal record shows she’s ideologically opposed to the mission of the very agency she now leads,” said Kurose. “She’ll always put the interests of her industry friends ahead of protecting America’s wildlife. Her confirmation is a travesty.” Earlier this week, 46 former Interior Department employees with a combined 1,075.5 years of experience spoke out against Skipwith’s confirmation. More than 40 conservation groups also urged the Senate to oppose her confirmation. |
16825
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Former Monsanto employee now heads US Fish & Wildlife!!
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Mad world. I can't get the link to open for me now, I may try it again later. Thanks for sharing. |
16826
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: the takeaway is this:
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that she worked for 6 years at Monsanto is the tell and the link opens for me but if nothing else is read, this paragraph says it all! For the past two years, Skipwith has served as deputy assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior. During her tenure at the Department, Skipwith has repeatedly put the interests of the pesticide industry ahead of imperiled wildlife. In spring 2017 the Service scrapped the first nationwide biological reviews that assessed the impacts of pesticides on endangered species. In August 2018 it reversed a 2014 decision prohibiting bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically modified, pesticide-resistant crops on national wildlife refuges. |
16828
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the takeaway is this:
| the money is just too good for these scum to refuse-- showing their lack of integrity. Too true for most in office. We should make it illegal for this activity to prevail; bribes and lobbyists. |
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16838
From: Polydactyl in SCentral, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the takeaway is this:
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Yes! What a sickening, upside down political heirarchy we're living in now, with little participation by the majority to launch useful idiots with no imagination to save the environment. She's a real gag, another strap-on puppet for the pesticide boyz. |
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16827
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the takeaway is this:
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She's a killer. |
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