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Disingenuous Bastards: Environmental lawyers transmogrify ESA’s original mission into a conversion vehicle of monetary gain

Despite the hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent over the years implementing the ESA, a new congressional report made public Tuesday provides abundant evidence that the law has been hijacked by environmental lawyers working on the taxpayer’s dime. Center for Biological Diversity and similar-minded Big Green outfits like Wild Earth Guardians “taking advantage of strict and unworkable statutory deadlines in the ESA, have filed literally hundreds of ESA lawsuits and thousands of petitions, and in essence, have overtaken the ESA priorities of the FWS and NMFS.”Read more here 07:12