<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">Education</u></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last year, Montana’s two U.S. Senators passed an <a href="https://www.ruralvoicescoalition.org/blog/2018/4/2/omnibus-policy-update" class="">omnibus bill that weakened the Endangered Species Act</a> after Cottonwood prevailed on a lawsuit that exposed a high-ranking political official for interfering with scientists' designation of critical habitat for Canada lynx, a medium sized cat that depends on snow for its survival. </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now that U.S. Senator Tester has won his bid for re-election, he is "deeply troubled" by new Endangered Species Act rules that move away from "science based decision making."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">U.S. Senator Daines calls the new Endangered Species Act rules a “big win for Montana and the West!” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The new ESA regulations allow the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider the economic impacts to the fossil fuel industry when deciding whether to protect a species under the Endangered Species Act. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">Conversation Starter</u></div><div class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></div><div class="">- Do you agree with Senator Daines that the new ESA regulations are a big win for Montana?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Do you think it is possible for a candidate to win one of Montana's U.S. Senate seats without lying or watering down our bedrock environmental laws?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="FEF7F68B-66F0-4535-83E4-41E3EBAB4109" width="246" height="240" src="cid:D438B5CB-7B88-463F-8F02-2429AD83B1C9" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="FC61E49E-A67A-4D38-8136-B924D8C0A9CF" width="282" height="240" src="cid:45A3C459-4510-44B5-A33C-5A2BB7021105" class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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