[Editor’s note: Paul Driessen is a policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.]
Trumpโs Interior Department opened a real can of worms when it let the Obama Administrationโs last-minute endangered species designation for the rusty patched bumblebee (RPB) take effect March 21 [2017]….
The designation has serious adverse implications for Mr. Trumpโs ambitious plans for infrastructure improvements, economic growth, job creation, and reining in regulatory abuse and overreach.
Already, officials in the Minneapolis area have delayed a road construction project โ purportedly near a patch of potential RPB habitat โ while they look for signs that the bees are actually nesting there. Another Minnesota group is trying to use hypothetical threats to RPBs to delay construction of a wastewater treatment plant that would prevent pollution from reaching sensitive state waterways!
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When the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation originally petitioned the FWS for an RPB endangered species designation, it said the speciesโ decline was due to habitat loss and disease โ specifically an intestinal parasite that was accidentally imported to the USA from Europe in the 1990s, during experiments on managed bumblebee hives. But Obamaโs FWS arbitrarily contorted its justifications to blame pesticides (specifically advanced-technology neonicotinoid pesticides, a key target du jour of the Environmental Left) for the beeโs decline. There is virtually no evidence to support that.
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