{"id":22455,"date":"2018-04-19T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=22455"},"modified":"2018-04-18T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:57:23","slug":"requirement-assess-pesticide-effects-endangered-species-eliminated-farm-bill-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/04\/requirement-assess-pesticide-effects-endangered-species-eliminated-farm-bill-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirement to Assess Pesticide Effects on Endangered Species To Be Eliminated in Farm Bill Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22466\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/images-7-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"218\" \/>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, April 19, 2018)\u00a0With the passage yesterday of the Republican amendments to the 2018 Farm Bill,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/bills\/hr2\/BILLS-115hr2ih.pdf\">H.R. 2<\/a>,\u00a0in the U.S. House of Representatives&#8217; Agriculture Committee, Congress has launched a full-frontal attack on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and required pesticide reviews to protect endangered species. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/campaigns\/esa_attacks\/pdfs\/Politics_of_Extinction.pdf\">Center for Biological Diversity<\/a> (CBD), the bill, on a party-line vote, will &#8220;completely exempt the use of pesticides from ESA, effectively dooming hundreds of endangered species to extinction and making it legal to kill any endangered species with a pesticide at almost any time.&#8221; The legislation is sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman U.S. Representative Mike Conaway (R-Texas).<\/p>\n<p>The Farm Bill&#8217;s ESA provision will do away with EPA\u2019s legally-mandated scientific consultations with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Interior Department\u2019s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the two main agencies charged with government oversight of species protection. If Congress fails to eliminate this undesirable provision from the Farm Bill, it is viewed as a tragic end to a success story, which began with the enactment of ESA in 1973. The law effectively prevented the extinction of 99 percent of species under its jurisdiction over the past 45 years. Few federal laws have engendered such tangible success with such widespread societal benefits and for so long, affording protections to more than 1,400 species, many of which are on the pathway to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on ESA have been a regular occurrence since the inauguration of the 115<sup>th<\/sup> United States Congress on January 3<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">,<\/span>\u00a02017. This Congress already has seen at least 63 \u201clegislative attacks seeking to strip federal protections from specific species or undercutting the Endangered Species Act,\u201d according to CBD. \u00a0Although ESA attacks have occurred at an accelerated rate during this session of Congress, the organization has documented a total of 164 bills introduced into Congress which have sought to \u201cdismantle critical species protections\u201d between 2010 and 2015. This latest rash of attacks is occurring at a feverish pace, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/news\/press_releases\/2018\/endangered-species-attacks-04-17-2018.php\">hidden in proposed legislation<\/a> such as a recent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Bill which would exempt the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from ESA requirements. Federal wildlife experts have observed that some of FEMA\u2019s activities are already threatening a variety of salmon species and Puget Sound killer whales with extinction. The exemption of FEMA activities from ESA scientific reviews would only make matters worse.<\/p>\n<p>While Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee claim that the bill adds \u201ccommon sense reforms\u201d to an \u201conerous and conflicting\u201d ESA process that needs to be \u201cmodernized,\u201d opponents of the Farm Bill provision label it a \u201cpoison pill.\u201d Committee Chair, K. Michael Conaway, argues that despite four plus decades of reviewing species-by-species, EPA does not have the resources to continue to do so.\u00a0 He wants to \u201cprotect crops\u201d with pesticides and \u201cfigure a way to protect species.\u201d But, as Beyond Pesticides has repeatedly demonstrated in its <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/04\/international-science-panel-finds-biodiversity-declines-extremely-dangerous-worldwide\/\"><em>Daily News<\/em><\/a>, the two are not compatible.<\/p>\n<p>The organophosphate insecticides\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/resources\/pesticide-gateway?pesticideid=17\">chlorpyrifos<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/resources\/pesticide-gateway?pesticideid=44\">malathion<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/resources\/pesticide-gateway?pesticideid=24\">diazinon<\/a>\u00a0have put the continued existence of endangered species and their critical habitats at risk, according to a \u00a0December 2017\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/resource\/document\/biological-opinion-pesticides-chlorpyrifos-diazinon-and-malathion\">Biological Opinion\u00a0<\/a>of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). That Opinion states that EPA\u2019s proposed registration of pesticides containing any one of these three chemicals is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of 25 to 38 of the 77 listed species and adversely modify 18 to 50 of the 50 designated critical habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, halted the near-complete process of prohibiting all uses of the notoriously noxious, neurotoxic chlorpyrifos, which has been documented to harm farmworkers and cause developmental impairments to children in utero. While a limited, nationwide ban already exists for residential use of chlorpyrifos, Hawaii is considering a permanent prohibition for all uses.<\/p>\n<p>Over 60 agriculture groups signed a letter in January telling House Agriculture Committee leaders that the current ESA review and permitting process is \u201credundant\u201d and \u201cprovides no environmental benefit, but instead imposes additional costs on farms and businesses.\u201d The opposing side vehemently disagrees and attributes the law\u2019s success to its science-driven determinations that defy partisan politics. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/campaigns\/esa_attacks\/pdfs\/Letter_to_National_Governors_Assn_on_Protecting_Endangered_Species_Act.pdf\">letter<\/a> to the National Governors\u2019 Association from over three hundred environmental, community health, and conservation groups, the signers argue that \u201cthe Act has been so successful in large part because it requires that science and not short-term political and economic concerns guide decisions about whether species are at risk and how they should be protected and recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According CBD experts, \u201cNo law has been more important in preventing the extinction of wildlife, including bald eagles, gray whales and the peregrine falcon.\u201d Due to the multiple protections afforded by ESA, many species are enroute to recovery. In addition, essential habitats comprising millions of acres of forests, beaches, and wetlands also have been protected.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Giaconia, Sierra Club\u2019s federal policy associate for defense says that the ramifications of the Farm Bill proposal are far reaching and views this pesticide-first approach to the Farm Bill as an \u201cunprecedented attack on the Endangered Species Act.\u201d He laments that \u201cit\u2019s unfortunately not surprising. It falls in line with Scott Pruitt\u2019s efforts to undermine scientifically based environmental protections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/news\/media-release-biodiversity-nature\u2019s-contributions-continue-%20dangerous-decline-scientists-warn\"><em>Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services <\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/news\/media-release-biodiversity-nature\u2019s-contributions-continue-%20dangerous-decline-scientists-warn\">Report<\/a> (IPBES), which warns of the perils of an impending biodiversity crisis if international governments do not change course, as previously reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/04\/international-science-panel-finds-biodiversity-declines-extremely-dangerous-worldwide\/\">Beyond Pesticides<\/a>, it would be unconscionable for Congress to act with such a blatant disregard for future generations and the ecosystems that support their survival.\u00a0 The IPBES Report unearths the alarming plight faced by two-fifths of the world\u2019s population due to of the worsening of land degradation, declining species biodiversity, and the intensification of climate change. It documents how heightened pesticide use has adversely affected species diversity of both target and <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/01\/controversial-pesticides-jeopardize-endangered-species-like-salmon\/\">non-target species<\/a> and has negatively impacted food and water security. This timely report further reinforces the need to protect threatened and endangered species, their habitats, and the ESA.<\/p>\n<p>Write or call your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find-your-representative\">House Congressional Representative<\/a> and urge her\/him to contest the provision in the Farm Bill that would decimate the ESA\u2019s scientific review of pesticide impacts and severely weaken protections for endangered and threatened species and their habitats.<\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/politics\/epa-pesticides-endangered-species\">Roll Call<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endangered.org\/campaigns\/protecting-the-endangered-species-act\/\">Endangered Species Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, April 19, 2018)\u00a0With the passage yesterday of the Republican amendments to the 2018 Farm Bill,\u00a0H.R. 2,\u00a0in the U.S. House of Representatives&#8217; Agriculture Committee, Congress has launched a full-frontal attack on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and required pesticide reviews to protect endangered species. According to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the bill, on a party-line vote, will &#8220;completely exempt the use of pesticides from ESA, effectively dooming hundreds of endangered species to extinction and making it legal to kill any endangered species with a pesticide at almost any time.&#8221; The legislation is sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman U.S. Representative Mike Conaway (R-Texas). The Farm Bill&#8217;s ESA provision will do away with EPA\u2019s legally-mandated scientific consultations with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Interior Department\u2019s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the two main agencies charged with government oversight of species protection. If Congress fails to eliminate this undesirable provision from the Farm Bill, it is viewed as a tragic end to a success story, which began with the enactment of ESA in 1973. The law effectively prevented the extinction of 99 percent of species under its jurisdiction over the past 45 years. 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According to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the bill, on a party-line vote, will &#8220;completely exempt the use of pesticides from ESA, effectively dooming hundreds of endangered species to extinction and making it legal to kill any endangered species with a pesticide at almost any time.&#8221; The legislation is sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman U.S. Representative Mike Conaway (R-Texas). The Farm Bill&#8217;s ESA provision will do away with EPA\u2019s legally-mandated scientific consultations with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Interior Department\u2019s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the two main agencies charged with government oversight of species protection. If Congress fails to eliminate this undesirable provision from the Farm Bill, it is viewed as a tragic end to a success story, which began with the enactment of ESA in 1973. 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According to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the bill, on a party-line vote, will &#8220;completely exempt the use of pesticides from ESA, effectively dooming hundreds of endangered species to extinction and making it legal to kill any endangered species with a pesticide at almost any time.&#8221; The legislation is sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman U.S. Representative Mike Conaway (R-Texas). The Farm Bill&#8217;s ESA provision will do away with EPA\u2019s legally-mandated scientific consultations with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Interior Department\u2019s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the two main agencies charged with government oversight of species protection. If Congress fails to eliminate this undesirable provision from the Farm Bill, it is viewed as a tragic end to a success story, which began with the enactment of ESA in 1973. 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