Outgoing Bush Takes Final Stab at Earth
The Guardian has listed a bunch of environmental regulations George W. Bush wants to either weaken or totally reverse in the two months he has left in the Oval Office.Bush's to-do list of dismantling eco-safeguards include eroding current protection for parks, rivers and wildlife and reducing rules that get big factory farms to clean up their planet-damaging waste. He's looking to get these last-minute, not-so-green rules set in place before Obama is sworn in, making it much harder for the new administration to reverse them. These last minute regulations are sometimes called 'midnight regulations', or as I call it, 'screwing-over-the-new guy'.
Bush made a move this week to allow the development of super polluting oil shale on 800 000 hectares of land in Rocky Mountain states. The law would go into effect only three days before Obama is sworn in. A regulation, finalized this past October, would let huge pig and cattle farms and mountain-top mining operations to essentially ignore the Clean Water Act. Yet another midnight regulation would allow government agencies to start new projects without having to study how they impact wildlife.
This strategy isn't sitting well with green groups, Congress or Obama's transition team who have said they will seek to repeal anything that's not in the interest of the country once he is in power in January.
January suddenly seems to be a long, annoying two months away.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-30-2008 @ 7:48AM
PRR said...
Global warming is this generation's flat earth science, google it "ice cores and co2". The flat earth science was a science based on what people could see not real science, that is how global warming science is done, we can see changes so we must be causing them. That is not real science, and we are actually on a 5 year cooling trend now.
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12-01-2008 @ 1:26PM
Maverick said...
The only thing thats annoying is left wingers like you that are allowed to write articles like this one in which you state only the facts that benefit your case rather than all of them. There's always more to the story. You wanna see some real destruction of the earth, just wait your two more months until your wonderful savior of a president is in office. None of our adversarial countries have any respect for him and if he doesnt respond correctly the first time he is tested you might as well kiss your ass goodbye because the attacks wont stop after that. Maybe he will try to talk the terrorists out of bombing us?!?!?!?!
11-30-2008 @ 11:29AM
Jack said...
Sounds like the author of this opinion piece needs to get out of their tree house and ride their bike to the library.
Once they get there they need to READ the actual regulations and then come back here and apologize for lying to the American people
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11-30-2008 @ 1:42PM
Bill said...
This site seems to be another propaganda outlet for the enviromarxists. The Global Warming scam has been exposed, now it is "Climate Change" that we are causing by trying to continue our way of life and standard of living!
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