“Tomorrow the Senate will take up its Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government for the next 7 months. This spending bill must be kept clean from any language attempting to hurt our environment and endangered species. Tell your Senator to pass a CR that is free of anti-environmental policy provisions (riders) before it is too late.

Unfortunately, the Senate CR unveiled on Friday is being used as a vehicle to delist wolves in the Northern Rockies from the Endangered Species Act. Meanwhile, the House-passed version of the CR was loaded up with nearly two dozen anti-environmental riders that threaten our air, water and wildlife.

The bill produced by the Senate Appropriations Committee is being used to delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Oregon and Washington by reversing a federal court ruling in2009. Using a federal spending bill to overturn court rulings and strip Endangered Species Act protections would allow politicians not wildlife experts to decide the fate of a species. If signed into law this would be the first time that Congress has ever acted to delist an endangered species. Such a precedent opens the door to the next “inconvenient” species that powerful industries want the politicians they support to remove from the Endangered Species Act.

Passing a Senate CR containing a wolf rider also makes it far more difficult for the White House and the Senate to say no to the all of the harmful anti-environmental policy riders that have been included in the House-passed CR when it gets down to negotiating a final spending bill that would go to the President’s desk.

Please tell the Senate the CR must be kept clean. Please tell your Senator to vote NO on H.R. 1 and pass a clean CR out of the Senate.” (via Earthjustice)