Bush Endangered Species

Feds Drop Bush-Era Endangered Species Policy

AP | By BOB MOEN | Posted 07.06.2011

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Obama administration has discarded a Bush administration policy that considered state boundaries when determining endangered spe...

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Bush Endangered Species Rule Put On Hold By Obama

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged agency heads Tuesday to ignore a Bush administration regulation limiting scientific reviews of project...

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Bush Administration to Strip Wolves of Federal Protection... Except for Wyoming

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Wetzler

With a viable population of this American icon so close to being a reality, we simply cannot allow the Bush Administration to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they slink out the door.

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California Sues Bush Administration To Save Endangered Species Act

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 05.25.2011

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is suing the Bush administration to block last-minute endangered species regulations that are intended to reduce...

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Emission Accomplished?

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Randall Amster

The third piece of the Bush train-wreck triumvirate in these waning days: increasing pollution... by rolling back Environmental Protection Agency regulations on emissions.

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Unintended Consequences

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Wetzler

When the Bush administration decided that it was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming someone in the bowels of the administration came up with a clever idea.

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Bush By The Numbers: Before And After

ProPublica | Kristin Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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The final report card for George W. Bush won't be in the mail for another few years. (Nixon's is still being revised--and, for that matter, Lincoln's....

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The Subversion of Irreversibility: Bush's Final Assault on Endangered Species

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Schweitzer

Plants and animals currently protected by law from the impacts of dams, highways and other large-scale projects will no longer be if Bush has his way on his way out.

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Administration Diverts Comments On New Endangered Species Act

Treehugger | Jeremy Elton Jacquot | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sure, the Fish and Wildlife Service is interested in reading your comments about the Bush administration's latest gutting of the Endangered Species Ac...

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Bush's Swan Song -- Bad News for the Swans?

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patt Morrison

This is the most radical change in the Endangered Species Act in 20 years and because it's regulatory and under the control of the executive branch, Congress can't do a darned thing about it.

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Bush "Antagonizing Environmentalists" With New Endangered Species Proposals: AP

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Just months before President Bush leaves office, his administration is antagonizing environmentalists by proposing changes that wou...

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