Sage grouse protection block gives Western developers win over environmentalists

[Geee]

Washington Times:

DENVER — A successful Republican move to stop in its tracks the Obama administration’s bid to list the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act may be a sign of things to come in the long-running battle between environmentalists and economic developers across the West.

 

A GOP policy “rider” tucked into the massive $1.1 trillion spending bill debated by Congress last week cuts off any money for the administration to move on the grouse issue, and with Republicans set to take full control of the House and the Senate next month, that’s unlikely to be the last such move.

 

After years of watching federal bureaucrats, environmentalists and judges decide Western land-use and endangered species policy, Republican and Western lawmakers are drawing a line in the sand over the wide-ranging, chicken-size bird, which threatens to upend economic development projects across the rural West.

 

[RandyM]

And here I thought all RINO's were invertebrates....

[SrWoodchuck]

And here I thought all RINO's were invertebrates....

 

@RandyM!

 

I always thought that RINO's & Progs....like the insects they are....have exoskeletons.....that hard outer shell of dogma, that nothing can penetrate.