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No. 653, January 24, 2013 World's Most Endangered Whales to Get Recovery Plan at Long Last -- Take Action Obama Vows Climate Action, Center Op-ed Offers First Steps Lawsuit Aims to Stop Unregulated Fracking in California Lead Suspected in Death of Utah's Only Breeding Female Condor Suit Filed to Save Florida Corals From Global Warming, Ocean Acidification Deadly White-nose Syndrome Arrives at Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky. 48,000 People Denounce Georgia's 'Rattlesnake Roundup' Lawsuit Launched for Rare Mountain Fox Wild & Weird: Can't See the Factory Fire for the Smog

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World's Most Endangered Whales to Get Recovery Plan at Long Last -- Take Action

North Pacific right whales, among the world's most endangered marine mammals, are finally getting a federal recovery plan. The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed the recovery plan this week, after the Center for Biological Diversity threatened to sue last March because of agency delays.

There are as few as 30 individual North Pacific right whales left in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, and only a few hundred in Russia's Okhotsk Sea. The whales are extremely vulnerable to ship strikes, oil development and spills, and entanglement in fishing gear. Although the proposed recovery plan provides a much-needed strategy for additional research, it doesn't provide a clear roadmap for reducing those threats. The public has 45 days to comment on the plan -- and we're pushing to ensure it includes stronger protections.

"North Pacific right whales have a long road to recovery, but we hope it starts here," said Sarah Uhlemann, a Center attorney. "With just a small number of these great animals left in the world, the loss of even one of them could threaten this population's existence."

Read more in the Alaska Dispatch, then take action to push for a stronger recovery plan.

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Obama Vows Climate Action, Center Op-ed Offers First Steps

President Barack Obama featured the need to respond to the climate crisis prominently in his second inaugural speech on Monday. The crisis, largely ignored during Obama's first term, was one of a few specific policy areas mentioned in the speech. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," the president said. "Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms."

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Lawsuit Aims to Stop Unregulated Fracking in California

In our latest action to stop dangerous fracking, the Center for Biological Diversity went to court this morning to require California regulators to enforce existing laws to protect people, wildlife and the environment from fracking. Fracking, a rapidly expanding method of oil and gas extraction, is happening at hundreds of wells across California.

The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County, says fracking has been allowed to expand without legally required oversight, including compliance with existing oil and gas regulations that would require disclosure of all fracking chemicals, as well as engineering studies and tests to evaluate the potential for underground migration of fracking fluids. State regulators would also need to ensure that fracking is conducted in a way that prevented damage to life, health, property, and California's water and other natural resources.

More than 600 wells in at least nine California counties were fracked in 2011 alone, and recent advances in fracking techniques are driving a growing interest in the Monterey Shale, a geological formation holding an estimated 14 billion barrels of oil. California regulators cannot continue ignoring the risks of this dangerous practice.

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Lead Suspected in Death of Utah's Only Breeding Female Condor

The female in Utah's only breeding pair of endangered California condors has been found dead at Zion National Park. Investigators are trying to determine whether the 9-year-old bird, known as Condor 343, died from lead poisoning, which is the leading cause of death for condors in northern Arizona and southern Utah. The birds ingest lead when they scavenge game that's been shot with lead hunting ammunition.

The Center for Biological Diversity has been fighting for years to get lead out of hunting ammunition and fishing tackle that, left in the wild, poisons and kills millions of birds and other wildlife every year. A study released last year found that lead ammunition is creating an "epidemic" of lead poisoning in California condors and preventing their recovery. Despite mounting scientific evidence about the dangers of lead to both wildlife and people, the National Rifle Association keeps pushing legislation to ban the federal government from addressing these preventable poisonings.

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Suit Filed to Save Florida Corals From Global Warming, Ocean Acidification

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday for failing to develop a recovery plan for elkhorn and staghorn corals. The corals were protected under the Endangered Species Act in 2006, in response to a Center petition, but still lack a recovery plan -- a necessary blueprint for their recovery.
    
Reefs in Florida and the Caribbean were once dominated by these beautiful, branching corals, but now the species are in steep decline due to bleaching from increasing ocean temperatures, disease, fishing, pollution and ocean acidification. Corals reef ecosystems are called the "rainforests of the sea," and an array of marine life -- including the brightly colored clownfish of Finding Nemo fame -- depend on reefs.

"Time is short for saving coral reefs. If we want a future with beautiful reefs, healthy fisheries and thriving marine life, we have to act now to reduce carbon dioxide pollution," said Jaclyn Lopez, a Florida attorney at the Center.

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Deadly White-nose Syndrome Arrives at Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky.

White-nose syndrome, the deadly malady that has killed millions of bats in caves across the nation, has been found at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Last week's discovery is the latest chilling example of the spread of the disease that was first discovered in the United States in a cave in upstate New York in 2006 and has since been found in 19 U.S. states, nine national parks and four Canadian provinces and killed almost 7 million bats.

The Center for Biological Diversity has fought for federal protections since 2010 for bat species affected by white-nose syndrome; we have advocated for stringent restrictions on cave visitation and decontamination of caving gear to prevent spread of the fungus to new caves.

"The best hope for bats all along has been for research on the disease to speed up, for human travel into caves to slow down, and for government agencies, cave recreationists and everyone else to take all the protective measures possible to save the bats we have left," said the Center's Mollie Matteson. "It will be a sad day indeed when hibernating bats are no longer part of the mystery and beauty of North American caves."

Read more in the Summit County Citizens Voice.

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48,000 People Denounce Georgia's 'Rattlesnake Roundup'

Organized by the Center for Biological Diversity, more than 48,000 people this week urged a cruel "rattlesnake roundup" in Georgia to transition to a wildlife-friendly festival where no snakes are killed. The roundups are barbaric contests that feature the capture and slaughter of large numbers of native snakes.

Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes targeted by the roundup in Whigham, Ga., are rapidly disappearing in the southeastern United States. This once-common species is being pushed toward extinction not only by hunting pressure but also by habitat loss and road mortality. All of Georgia's other roundups have abandoned or replaced the events with festivals celebrating local wildlife; the Whigham roundup is the last of its kind in the state.

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Lawsuit Launched for Rare Mountain Fox

Fewer than 50 Sierra Nevada red foxes are known to exist in the high mountains of California and Oregon. These slight, alpine foxes are unique from all others in North America -- and one of the most endangered mammals in the world. Yet more than a year after the Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition to federally protect the animals in April 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yet to announce their safeguards. Because the agency neglected its Endangered Species Act deadline -- and this fox doesn't have time to wait -- the Center last week filed a notice of intent to sue the agency.

Although California has protected Sierra Nevada red foxes as threatened, Oregon has granted them no safeguards at all. The state still allows their trapping, one of the threats that helped drive them toward their currently tiny, genetically anemic population. Along with trapping, logging, grazing, poisoning, and vehicles tearing up their habitat, these mountain dwellers are now also threatened by climate change, which threatens to shrink their habitat even more by pushing cool temperatures farther upslope. With our impending suit, the Center is determined to earn Sierra Nevada red foxes the federal protection and wide-range recovery strategy they need to ensure that the few remaining don't dwindle to zero.

Learn more about our work to protect the Sierra Nevada red fox.

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Wild & Weird: Can't See the Factory Fire for the Smog

Official air-quality readings in Beijing, China have topped out at nearly 40 times the World Health Organization's safe limit. On the worst days, a seemingly impenetrable brown cloud envelops the capital city, skyscrapers stand shrouded, and area hospitals fill with patients suffering respiratory sickness.

Recently the smog was so thick in another Chinese coastal area, Zhejiang province, that a furniture factory actually burned for three hours before a single resident ever took notice. Apparently air quality has gotten so bad that it's difficult to tell the difference between normal smog and billowing plumes of smoke from a raging inferno.

Wondering about air-pollution levels closer to home? Check out the American Lung Association's 2012 State of the Air report to see air pollution levels in U.S. cities. And read more about the seemingly apocalyptic air-quality situation in Beijing in the South China Morning Post.

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Photo credits: north Pacific right whale courtesy the Marine Mammal Commission; north Pacific right whale by John Durban, NOAA; polar bear (c) Patrick Kelley, USCG; California fracking courtesy Flickr/Justin Woolford; California condor by Scott Frier, USFWS; elkhorn coral (c) John Easley, deepseaimages.com; little brown bats with white nose syndrome by Nancy Heaslip, New York Department of Environmental Conservation; eastern diamondback rattlesnake courtesy Flickr/Matt Ward; Sierra Nevada red fox courtesy USDA; Beijing smog courtesy Flickr/Jim O'Connell.

A new poll of the Virginia governor’s race shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe leading extremist Republican Ken Cuccinelli, 46%-41%.

BREAKING: A new poll of the Virginia governor’s race shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe leading extremist Republican Ken Cuccinelli, 46%-41%.
This is going to be a long, tough race, but we’re starting ahead and we need to build on it. Cuccinelli just compared his efforts to deny women access to contraception to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s fight for civil rights. It's scary how out of touch this guy is with most Virginians, but we need the resources to make sure voters get the message. It’s how we’ll win this race.
This poll will get the Republicans’ attention, too. Cuccinelli has the backing of all the Republicans’ extremist, billionaire powerbrokers. The billionaire Koch brothers just contributed $50,000 to air nasty, untruthful attack ads to prop up Cuccinelli.
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Jan. 11, 2013: AFGE: The Week In Review

Panetta Warns DoD May Have to Furlough 800,000 Civilian Employees: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Pentagon may be forced to furlough nearly 800,000 civilian employees if the second fiscal cliff were to happen in March. Panetta said the Pentagon has begun planning for the triple crisis: across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, the expiration of the continuing resolution that keeps the government funded, and the default of its debt if the debt ceiling is not raised.  
“I’d like to believe that ultimately, Congress will do the right thing,” Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon. “My fear in talking to members of Congress is that this issue may now be in a very difficult place in terms of their willingness to confront what needs to be done to de-trigger sequester. So all those reasons, plus the uncertainty about what happen on the CR, the debt ceiling, put all that together, and we simply cannot sit back now and not be prepared for the worst.”
But he added: “No amount of planning we can do can fully offset the harm that would result from sequestration, if that happens.”
Besides civilian personnel, military readiness would be hard hit if the cuts were to happen. The Pentagon expects a 20 percent cut in the readiness budget, including a 30-percent cut for the Army.
“If we’re required to do these cuts, suddenly we’ve got to achieve these levels of savings, how do you protect the war-fighters, those involved in Afghanistan, those areas that are critical to our national defense? So where do you go? You go to readiness, you go to maintenance, training, this is where the cuts are ultimately made, and when that happens, it makes us less ready,” Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said.
NP Cox on How Upcoming Budget Battles Affect You: In a video message to AFGE members, AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. explains the new tax deal reached last week to avert the fiscal cliff and postpone the across-the-board cuts for two months. The video is an excellent explanation of the upcoming budget battles and how it will affect AFGE members.
NP Cox also asks members to sign up for AFGE action alerts and provide home email addresses to keep themselves informed of urgent issues affecting their federal career. As AFGE will be sending out action alerts on the budget battle in the coming weeks, NP Cox, in a rare request, asks that members open the emails and not just delete them.
Mass Transit Subsidy Goes up to $240: Federal employees’ mass transit subsidy will go up from $125 to $240 through 2013 and is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2012. The increase is part of the fiscal cliff bill that was signed into law last week. This brings the transit subsidy, which was reduced in 2011, in line with parking benefits that went up to $240 in 2011.
Mileage Reimbursement Rates Slightly Go up: The General Services Administration has increased mileage reimbursement rates for federal employees who use their own vehicles for federal business. Effective Jan. 1, federal employees will be reimbursed 56.5 cents per mile, a one-penny increase, if they drive their own cars; 24 cents per mile, also a one-penny increase, if they choose to drive their own cars when a government vehicle is available; and 53.5 per mile, an increase by one cent, if they ride a motorcycle.
AFGE Applauds Confirmation of FAA Administrator: AFGE congratulates Michael Huerta on his recent confirmation to lead the Federal Aviation Administration. The 112thCongress confirmed Huerta on Jan. 1, just before the congressional session expired. Huerta has served as FAA’s Acting Administrator since December 2011. During this time, he has successfully managed FAA’s workforce of 47,000 employees during a trying period of budget shortfalls and hiring freezes.
“On behalf of all of the members we represent at AFGE, I congratulate Mr. Huerta for his well-deserved appointment and I look forward to working with him in the months and years ahead to ensure a positive work environment for all of FAA’s employees,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
AFGE’s largest concentration of FAA employees is at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, where about 1,400 employees work. AFGE Local 2282 President Greg Brooks, who is co-chair of the FAA Labor-Management Forum, said his Local has developed an open and professional relationship with Huerta that he looks forward to continuing.
“The newly confirmed administrator has proven to us that he is willing to listen to our concerns and will work on outcomes based on solutions, not delusions,” Brooks said.
AFGE also represents about 360 bargaining unit employees at the William J. Hughes Technical Center, which is housed at the Atlantic City International Airport. AFGE Local 200 President Gary Baca said employees there look forward to working with Huerta during the next five years.
“I’ve only been in this position less than six months but, in this short period of time and serving as a charter member on the Labor-Management Forum, I’ve recognized Administrator Huerta’s commitment and dedication to the aviation industry and the people who work for FAA,” Baca said.
Obama Nominates Jack Lew to Be Next Treasury Secretary: President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew to be the next Treasury Secretary succeeding Timothy Geithner. Before becoming Obama’s chief of staff, the budget whiz led the Office of Management and Budget where he was its chief from 1998 to 2001 during the Clinton administration.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Announces Resignation: As the Obama administration is beginning its second term, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is stepping down. Solis didn’t specify her next move, but news reports suggest she might be running for office back in her state of California, possibly the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
“After much discussion with family and close friends, I have decided to begin a new future, and return to the people and places I love and that have inspired and shaped my life,” Solis said in a letter to employees.
Thanks to AFGE, Sacramento Board of Supervisors Withdraws Approval for Airport Privatization: AFGE and our TSA Local 1230’s swift actions led to the Sacramento Board of Supervisors rescinding its authorization to allow the Sacramento International Airport to replace TSOs with a for-profit company under TSA’s controversial Screening Partnership Program (SPP). The board last year authorized the airport to apply for participation in SPP, but this week it voted 4-1 not to proceed with the privatization plan that could have opened up fliers to security risks and led to job losses and de-professionalization of airport screening.
AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. recognizes the four board members who did the right thing for America and Sacramento with their vote. He also recognizes AFGE TSA Local 1230 President James Mudrock for working hard over a long period of time and for skillfully educating the board members on the facts and benefits to the Sacramento community of the continued TSA role.
“We are pleased that the board recognizes the value in a federal workforce at TSA and has revoked its previous approval for privatization,” NP Cox said. “Airport security at Sacramento or any other federal airport is not broken. In fact, it has proven itself 100% successful. That means privatization is all about money. It is being pushed by private contractors seeking to make a profit from national security.”
After Uproar, AIG Won’t Sue Government: AIG decided not to sue the government after all, thanks to public uproar, including a suggestion that its former boss Maurice "Hank" Greenberg should be shot into space. Remember when AIG ran the company into the ground and was about to go bankrupt when the government bailed it out? The insurance giant took the money, paid its executives millions of dollars in bonuses, and until Wednesday was considering suing the government for bailing it out and causing harm to its shareholders. Even though it now decided not to go with the plan, even considering that option is a display of greed at its best.
This Week’s Blog: In Sandy Shows Disaster-Relief Funding Is a Disaster Bloomberg View blogger Evan Soltas argues that FEMA spending should be reclassified as mandatory instead of discretionary:
“One doesn’t have to be from New Jersey or hold rigid fiscal conservative views to see that the way the federal government funds disaster relief is a disaster unto itself. The U.S. can make sure that something like this never happens again. All it needs to do is treat natural disasters as predictable and do what every insurance company does: predict damage in advance and allocate sufficient money to cover the payments.
The federal government currently treats disasters as unanticipated emergencies because it chronically underbudgets the programs that are meant to do the insuring, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency. After leaving these programs short of money, Congress is forced to provide additional relief funds whenever disaster strikes.”
This Week’s Rant: On the Absurdity of the Debt Ceiling Debate. Lawmakers should serve and protect Americans, not throw them under the bus. But that’s exactly what they are doing. While millions of Americans are still unemployed and the economy is not fully recovered, lawmakers in Washington are engaged in absurd discussions on whether to raise the debt ceiling. It’s a known fact that raising the debt limit is not authorizing new spending but rather allowing the government to pay for things that Congresses have approved and bought. It doesn’t make any sense that some lawmakers would cite ‘fiscal constraints’ and threaten to default on the debts they themselves created – unless the government drastically reduces assistance to seniors, children, the sick, the poor, and the American public. Previous rounds of agency budget cuts have already led to layoffs and hiring freezes, which only worsens unemployment and hurts the economy.
We already breached the debt ceiling on Dec. 31.The Treasury is now doing its magic tricks, including not issuing new securities for federal employees’ Thrift Saving Plan funds to stay below the debt limit. To effectively force Congress to stop using the debt ceiling as a hostage-taking device, the White House has a few options, including citing the 14th Amendment, which says that the debt of the United States will always be paid. Or the government could mint a trillion dollar platinum coin and deposit it at the Fed, which sounds really silly but clearly demonstrates how the government gets its money (like when it created trillions out of thin air to bail out Wall Street).
Considering the fact that the U.S. cannot be forced to default since it is a sovereign country that issues its own currency and has debts in its currency, the debt ceiling ransom in exchange for spending cuts is absurd. In former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s own words: “[A] government cannot become insolvent with respect to obligations in its own currency. A fiat money system, like the ones we have today, can produce such claims without limit.” Greenspan and other leading economists also have argued for the elimination of the debt ceiling. Greenspan on Meet the Press: “Why do we have a debt limit in the first place? We appropriate funds, we have tax law, and on reasonably adept at arithmetic can calculate what the debt change is going to be. The Congress and the president have signed legislation predetermining what that number is. Why we need suspenders and belts is something I've never understood.”
George W. Bush’s first treasury secretary Paul O'Neill agreed. “It is hard to make a rational argument for the debt ceiling as it is now structured. Basically, the debt ceiling gives the Treasury the authority to borrow money to pay debts we already owe. As you know it doesn't authorize new spending.”
This Week’s Tweet: “Fox News joins the @NRCC in not understanding how coins work: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/10/fox_news_coin_ignorance.html … ~ @mattyglesias
This Week in Labor History: Jan. 8, 2003 - The George W. Bush administration declares federal airport security screeners will not be allowed to unionize so as not to "complicate" the war on terrorism. The decision was challenged by AFGE and eventually overturned in 2011.
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Inside government: Tune in now to AFGE’s “Inside Government” for more on the union’s efforts in defeating an airport privatization initiative in Sacramento. The show, which originally aired on Friday, Jan. 11, is now available on demand. AFGE Transportation Security Administration Local 1230 President James Mudrock discussed the union’s year-long campaign that resulted in the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voting to rescind its approval of the privatization of Sacramento International Airport. Mudrock also addressed the security risks associated with airport privatization. But first, Women’s Campaign Fund and She Should Run President and CEO Siobhan “Sam” Bennett discussed potential female presidential candidates in 2016 and the importance of encouraging women to run for public office at all levels of government. Economic Policy Institute President Larry Mishel then analyzed the labor market, unemployment rate and wages and the danger of losing jobs in the public sector. Lastly, AFGE Member Benefits Coordinator Mark Williams detailed the union’s robust member benefits program, including scholarships, the AFGE credit card and discount electricity benefit.
Listen LIVE on Fridays at 10 a.m. on 1500 AM WFED in the D.C. area or online at FederalNewsRadio.com. For more information, please visit InsideGovernmentRadio.com.
Quote of the Week
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas calls for another 1995-style government shutdown:
“What would happen if the debt ceiling isn’t raised is it would be a partial government shutdown. We’ve seen this before, we saw this in 1995, when [we] in the House shut down the government… If we hold strong we can do that again.”

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