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Article: LUJAN WOULD WEAKEN KEY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1990
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Byline: Combined wire services
Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. said in a newspaper interview published Friday that the nation's primary law protecting endangered animals and plants should be weakened and questioned the need to "save every subspecies."
In an interview in Colorado Thursday with the Denver Post, Lujan expressed concern that the 17-year- old Endangered Species Act is threatening jobs and economic development. He cited the example of a Colorado reservoir project that threatens the endangered Colorado squawfish and suggested in that case he might seek an exemption to the law.
"It's just too tough an act, I think," Lujan was ...