Basically we’re using taxpayer money in legal fees to litigious environmental groups and federal grants to these groups to assist them in their efforts to destroy the American economy in the name of protecting the environment.

From the Heritage Foundation May 19, 2011:

EPA Doles-Out Taxpayer Dollars to Environmentalist Activist Groups

….Other EPA grantees grab grants of tax dollars in one hand while collecting attorney fees from the federal government with the other. Wild Earth Guardians, for example, states in its annual report that it received grants not only from the EPA, but also the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, which, along with state, county and city grants, totaled well over a half million in 2009.

The Washington Post recently reported on a settlement between Wild Earth Guardians and the federal Government “that could pave the way for an avalanche” of endangered species. Under the settlement the US Fish and Wildlife Service will take action on 251 species considered as “candidates” for addition to the Endangered Species List — along with 9 subspecies of the same species of pocket gopher in the state of Washington, 36 insects including 10 kinds of cave beetle, 18 clams and 23 snails is Digitaria pauciflora.

For the non-botanists, the common name of this species is Florida Pineland crabgrass and yes, it belongs to the same group of crab grasses (it is one of 68 such species) that suburbanites constantly battle. The fear is that Florida Pineland crabgrass could be driven to extinction if global warming causes the oceans to rise and swallow the tip of southern Florida, this species’ habitat. While USFWS states this threat is “currently low, but expected to be severe in the future,” one must ask, even if the preposterous apocalyptic scenario played out, wouldn’t there be bigger worries like, say, the fate of Miami?

More….

Judge puts WildEarth Guardian endangered species agreement on hold

Center for Biological Diversity fights imperiled species deal

The deal CBD is opposing is the one referenced in this article:

Legislation to stop huge legal fee payments to environmental litigation factories poised to be introduced

Other articles about litigious environmental groups:

Environmental groups bury feds with Endangered Species petitions

Stop The Drilling! A Lizard Is Imperiled

New high recorded in frivolous environmental litigation

Environmentalism has become America’s new religion …time to consider separation of church and state

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