HOPE - U.S. EPA Trying Hard to Cause Imperiled Species Extinctions

Helping Our Peninsula's Environment

U.S. EPA Fighting to Cause Species Extinctions

And you thought the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was supposed to protect our environment...

To the contrary, EPA has willfully and recklessly evaded protecting imperiled species from pesticides for decades, even though they have been required by law to do so since the 1970's when the Endangered Species Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon!

In the meantime thousand of animals have been killed by pesticides including endangered species such as imperiled salmon, Monterey County's own darling San Joaquin Kitfox and the delicate Piping Plover.

San Joaquin Kitfox

Now that courts are forcing EPA to protect imperiled species from pesticides, EPA made rules to bypass the agencies with the expertise and the authority given by Congress & President Nixon.

This forced nine conservation and fishing groups, including HOPE, to file suit Sept 23, 2004 to halt this outrage.