[MCN] Tell the Senate: Say NO to Wilderness- and Wildlife-Destroying Energy Bill!

[Matthew Koehler]

*Tell the Senate to Just Say NO to Wilderness- and Wildlife-Destroying
Energy Bill!*
TAKE ACTION HERE:
https://wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/energybill/index.html

Right now, special interests are trying to pass one of the most
environmentally damaging energy bills ever contemplated in Congress. If it
becomes law, the energy bill will gut the Wilderness Act and many important
wildlife protection laws.

The list of riders attached to the House’s so-called "Energy Policy
Modernization Act of 2016" (S.2012) is appalling. If passed, the bill would:

   - Allow almost unlimited damage to Wildernesses if done for even a
   remote connection to hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, or wildlife
   management;

   - Permit such damaging projects as dam construction, construction of
   “temporary” roads; logging or chaining if done for wildlife browse; motor
   vehicle driving; bulldozer and backhoe use; construction of cabins if done
   for any connection to fish or wildlife; and much more;

   - Effectively strip the *wild* from Wilderness by allowing managers to
   engage in any and all sorts of habitat manipulation projects, including
   logging, burning, chaining, dam building, or similar projects, as well as
   predator control or any other action designed to provide more game species.

   - Prohibit environmental review under the National Environmental Policy
   Act (NEPA) for any of the above damaging projects;

   - Remove the wolf in the Great Lakes States and Wyoming from the
   protections of the Endangered Species Act; and

   - Expedite mining on public lands without meaningful environmental
   review.


TAKE ACTION HERE:
https://wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/energybill/index.html
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