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No surprise. #ChelliePingree voted against HR556, #JaredGolden voted for it.
Protect #Wildlife from Toxic #LeadAmmunition [and #FishingTackle]
"#HR556, a bill to prevent federal agencies from prohibiting or regulating the use of toxic lead ammunition and fishing tackle on certain public lands and waters, passed the House of Representatives on March 18. However, we are not done fighting this bill! Lead ammunition is a well-documented threat, leading to illness and death for millions of birds and other wild animals each year. Since there is no safe level for lead exposure, hunters, anglers, and their families can also be harmed. Please contact your US representative about their vote on H.R. 556 and urge your senators to oppose this bill."
https://awionline.org/action-center#/535
Bill Status and details:
H.R.556 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025
"This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (#FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (#BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations."
House Roll Call Vote 93 119th Congress - 2nd Session (2026)
Passed - Yea: 215 | Nay: 202
(R 208-1 Pres=0 NV=9, D 7-201 Pres=0 NV=6, I 0-0 Pres=0 NV=0)Full voting roster:
https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-2/93#USPol #MainePol #ProtectWildlife #ProtectNature #LeadPoisoning #WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #NatureIsLife
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No surprise. #ChelliePingree voted against HR556, #JaredGolden voted for it.
Protect #Wildlife from Toxic #LeadAmmunition [and #FishingTackle]
"#HR556, a bill to prevent federal agencies from prohibiting or regulating the use of toxic lead ammunition and fishing tackle on certain public lands and waters, passed the House of Representatives on March 18. However, we are not done fighting this bill! Lead ammunition is a well-documented threat, leading to illness and death for millions of birds and other wild animals each year. Since there is no safe level for lead exposure, hunters, anglers, and their families can also be harmed. Please contact your US representative about their vote on H.R. 556 and urge your senators to oppose this bill."
https://awionline.org/action-center#/535
Bill Status and details:
H.R.556 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025
"This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (#FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (#BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations."
House Roll Call Vote 93 119th Congress - 2nd Session (2026)
Passed - Yea: 215 | Nay: 202
(R 208-1 Pres=0 NV=9, D 7-201 Pres=0 NV=6, I 0-0 Pres=0 NV=0)Full voting roster:
https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-2/93#USPol #MainePol #ProtectWildlife #ProtectNature #LeadPoisoning #WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #NatureIsLife
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-VPy5LCg7RJeT7JxM-CYtlQ%3Aa%3A2382343751-%2F0
#PoliceScotland's new policy as reported here is illegal, because it takes no account of a #GenderRecognitionCertificate (#GRC).
The atrocious #UKSC decision in #FWS allows a GRC to be disregarded for purposes of the #EA2010. But it doesn't override a GRC for other purposes.
#GRA2004 §22 still applies: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/22
Disclosing info relating to a GRC is a criminal offence. The police focus on "BiologicalSex" risks routine illegal disclosure. I hope #trans are ready to sue
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-VPy5LCg7RJeT7JxM-CYtlQ%3Aa%3A2382343751-%2F0
#PoliceScotland's new policy as reported here is illegal, because it takes no account of a #GenderRecognitionCertificate (#GRC).
The atrocious #UKSC decision in #FWS allows a GRC to be disregarded for purposes of the #EA2010. But it doesn't override a GRC for other purposes.
#GRA2004 §22 still applies: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/22
Disclosing info relating to a GRC is a criminal offence. The police focus on "BiologicalSex" risks routine illegal disclosure. I hope #trans are ready to sue
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-VPy5LCg7RJeT7JxM-CYtlQ%3Aa%3A2382343751-%2F0
#PoliceScotland's new policy as reported here is illegal, because it takes no account of a #GenderRecognitionCertificate (#GRC).
The atrocious #UKSC decision in #FWS allows a GRC to be disregarded for purposes of the #EA2010. But it doesn't override a GRC for other purposes.
#GRA2004 §22 still applies: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/22
Disclosing info relating to a GRC is a criminal offence. The police focus on "BiologicalSex" risks routine illegal disclosure. I hope #trans are ready to sue
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-VPy5LCg7RJeT7JxM-CYtlQ%3Aa%3A2382343751-%2F0
#PoliceScotland's new policy as reported here is illegal, because it takes no account of a #GenderRecognitionCertificate (#GRC).
The atrocious #UKSC decision in #FWS allows a GRC to be disregarded for purposes of the #EA2010. But it doesn't override a GRC for other purposes.
#GRA2004 §22 still applies: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/22
Disclosing info relating to a GRC is a criminal offence. The police focus on "BiologicalSex" risks routine illegal disclosure. I hope #trans are ready to sue
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#DatensatzdesMonats #datasetofthemonth #GESISCommunityDataCollection
Der sechste Deutsche #Freiwilligensurvey (#FWS) mit Daten aus 2024 ist jetzt veröffentlicht. Die repräsentative Befragung zum freiwilligen Engagement in Deutschland wird seit 1999 alle fünf Jahre durchgeführt. Sie ist für Politik, Forschung und zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen eine wertvolle Ressource, um Trends im sozialen Engagement zu verstehen. -
@GeofCox I share @benofbrown's caution.
#BridgetPhillipson's track record on #trans rights is atrocious. If #Phillipson wanted to support trans people, the simple remedy would be to pass a one-sentence amendment to the #EA2010 making a GRC define sex in the EA as it does elsewhere. The #UKSC ruling in #FWS would be redundant.
This intervention marks a useful but small retreat from the #EHRC's extremist #transExclusion agenda. Phillipson just wants to crap on us less crudely.
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Excellent letter in #TheGuardian from Labour #MP Rachel Taylor about the destructive role of the #UK #EHRC's chair, the hardline #transphobe #KrisherFalkner, whose "ideological interpretation" of the #UKSC judgment in #FWS "risks marginalising transgender people". https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/equality-commission-guidance-after-sex-ruling-is-fundamentally-unworkable
Of course, Taylor diplomatically understates the problem. Falkner does not "risk marginalising #transgender people"; #trans exclusion is her clear goal.
There are also signs of possible govt caution ...
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Absolutely, @simon_brooke. The #UKSC inverted reality, and stripped rights that parliament had clearly intended to confer.
That could have been done honestly by Parliament. It could have voted to clarify definitions either way, and it could still do so. A simple amendment could undo the #FWS judgment.
But my meta point is that both with Andrew and with #trans people, UK law was simply pulled out of a conjurer's hat, then solemnised as if it was ancient. The "#BritishConstitution" is a farce.
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Smilarly, the #UKSC's stripping of trans rights in #FWS could have been done in a very simple bill amending the Equality Act 2020. That would still have been a cruelly devastating breach of #ECHR rights, but at least it would have been procedurally honest.
#UKania does sometimes do procedural honesty. But it's optional.
END OF THREAD
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This is of course what happened In the #UKSC's judgment in #FWS. The judges refused to hear any opposing arguments, ignored all the evidence in parliamentary proceedings of the clearly stared intent of ministers. They then proceeded to not just gut the existing statutory framework and overturn it, but to do so on the basis of absurdist concepts such as "biological sex", which they didn't even attempt to define.
In both cases, sleight of hand is masquerading as law.
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If you need some last-minute Valentines, the Fish & Wildlife Service has you covered.
https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/valentines-day-cards-wild-heart
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TAKE ACTION: Tell #FWS, “No Road Through #Izembek National #Wildlife #Refuge”
The link takes you to a page where you can send a comment to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
https://progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org/NoroadinIzembekNationalWildlifeRefuge
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In the United States, you can volunteer to help find, monitor, map, and remove invasive species, as well as help restore impacted areas.
More info at the link.
https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/education_public_awareness/public_awareness_fed_volunteer_efforts
#nature #community #nps #eppc #plants #fws #links -
In the United States, you can volunteer to help find, monitor, map, and remove invasive species, as well as help restore impacted areas.
More info at the link.
https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/education_public_awareness/public_awareness_fed_volunteer_efforts
#nature #community #nps #eppc #plants #fws #links -
In the United States, you can volunteer to help find, monitor, map, and remove invasive species, as well as help restore impacted areas.
More info at the link.
https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/education_public_awareness/public_awareness_fed_volunteer_efforts
#nature #community #nps #eppc #plants #fws #links -
In the United States, you can volunteer to help find, monitor, map, and remove invasive species, as well as help restore impacted areas.
More info at the link.
https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/education_public_awareness/public_awareness_fed_volunteer_efforts
#nature #community #nps #eppc #plants #fws #links -
In the United States, you can volunteer to help find, monitor, map, and remove invasive species, as well as help restore impacted areas.
More info at the link.
https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/education_public_awareness/public_awareness_fed_volunteer_efforts
#nature #community #nps #eppc #plants #fws #links -
This month, US wildlife officials have found two dead adult gray wolves in Washington, a species protected under federal and state law. US Fish and Wildlife is not messing around. They’re offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest or conviction in either case.
#WA #Washington #Wolf #Wolves #FWS #Reward #EndangeredSpecies
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#Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as #endangered for first time
This is such a shame, I've been trying really hard to make my yard firefly friendly and I haven't seen any at all. :(
#insect #USA #FWS #beetle #lightningbug
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/30/firefly-endangered-species-list
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#FWS announces 4 expanded #wildlife refuges
https://www.eenews.net/articles/fws-announces-4-expanded-wildlife-refuges/ https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-expansion-four-national-wildlife-refuges-conserve"The two #WildlifeRefuges in #Texas and one each in #NewMexico and #NorthCarolina include some particularly precious habitat for species ranging from #WhoopingCranes to the lesser #PrairieChicken... Under the #Biden-#Harris administration, the Service has added over 500,000 acres through willing seller land acquisition and #conservation easements."
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Diese Frau muss sehr viel Hass in sich haben.
Die 58-jährige britische Schriftstellerin #J.K. #Rowling hat am Freitag laut Berichten in mehreren britischen Zeitungen 70.000 Pfund (82.000 Euro) an die #transfeindliche Organisation "For Women Scotland" (#FWS) gespendet. Die feministische Organisation will erreichen, dass trans Frauen, deren Geschlechtseintrag geändert worden ist, nicht die gleichen Rechte – etwa Diskriminierungsschutz – wie andere #Frauen erhalten.
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#FAA & #FWS, fix your little problem and let's Light this Candle !! - Image Taken: October 2, 2023 #SpaceX #Starship #FAA #TeamSpaceView ( tell us your real feelings @cnunezimages 🫢) #Starbase #BocaChica
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"Auf den chaotischen Erstflug des Raumschiffs folgt die Abrechnung"
"Der missglückte erste Start der größten jemals gebauten Rakete hat ein Nachspiel. Die betreibende Firma SpaceX soll eine umfassende Sicherheits- und Umweltprüfung umgangen haben."
https://www.spektrum.de/news/spacex-auf-den-verpatzten-start-folgt-der-rechtsstreit/2137512
#ElonMusk #FAA #FWS #Musk #Rakete #Raumfahrt #Spaceflight #SpaceX #Starship #SuperHeavy #Umwelt
10.5.2023
