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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by bowlerp Dave, Pray tell exactly what are your "common sense" environmental protection proposals? [/quote] Here's a start: 1. No more EIS requirements for projects which have a precident, rather allow a fast tracked EIS template to suffice. Example: Right now, each and every project requires a costly lengthy EIS, even if such projects are a mirror image of a previous project in the exact same local. If the EIS was sufficient for the first project, why do we need another and another? One will do, we will know all we need to know regarding environmental impacts based on that first EIS. 2. Require environmental challenges to projects to have irrevicable proof that the project will do harm to the environment before a judge can throw down a court order stopping or delaying the start of the project. Right now, the way the ESA works, it is assumed a project will cause harm to a species until the project promoters prove that it won't harm beyond reason. If we reverse that burden of proof, force opponents to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the project will (not might) do harm to a species, we can eliminate most of the frivilous lawsuits being filed. 3. Force environmental groups to post bond for each and every lawsuit they file. The size of the bond should be equivalent to the economic losses incurred due to delays to development projects. Unless the charges in the lawsuit prove valid, the money from the bond will go to pay the developers for the financial losses the delay incurred. 4. Give states and localities final say over federal land use decisions. After all, they are the ones who are most impacted by land management decisions. And stewardship begins at home. Let the locals decide how much timber to cut, how much land should be off limits, etc. Forbid out of state entities from interfering in local land use decisions on federal land. Well that's four, I'll let you ponder these before I add more.
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