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.