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• Bush Seeks to Loosen Endangered Species Act

WASHINGTON -- Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 12, 2008

• Pennfuture Files Endangered Species Act Petition Against Bush Administration Due to Loss From Global Warming

To: ENERGY EDITORS Contact: Jeanne K. Clark, PennFuture, +1-412-258-6683 or +1-412- 736-6092

• U.S. Newswire
• February 01, 2007

• Bush administration seeks to cripple endangered species act.

In August, the Bush administration took an eleventh-hour swipe at the Endangered Species Act, seeking to radically weaken this critical federal law. T...

• Conservation Matters
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 4, September 2008

• Esa Comes Under Quiet Fire in D.C.

While lame-duck President George Bush was in Beijing cheering on Michael Phelps and criticizing the Chinese for their lack of democracy, his Interior Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, announced proposed changes that would severely weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA) at home. If the proposals become policy, Bush would complete an end around Congressional lawmakers who have refused to go along with him on this issue several times in the past.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• August 28, 2008

• Protected Species Rules in Danger

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• August 13, 2008

• Another View: Saving Old-Growth Forests

THE bald eagle aside, few birds have wielded as much influence on public policy as the northern spotted owl, once famously called "that little furry-feathery guy" by the first President George Bush. Formally listed as an endangered species in 1990, the owl triggered a series of court cases that persuaded President Bill Clinton in 1994 to protect much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest - the bird's habitat - from timber companies. Though the Clinton plan allowed some logging, it was considerably more favorable to the owl and its habitat than it was to industry. Bowing to industry pressure, the Bush administration decided last year to double the allowable logging on 2.6 million acres of prime owl habitat in Oregon and to rescind other protections. Last week, Interior Secret...

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• July 28, 2009

• Clinton-Era Roadless Rule Is Back ... For Now

Then came last month's surprise: [Elizabeth Laporte] ruled that by rescinding the [Clinton] rule, the [Bush] administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. Laporte's ruling brought back Clinton's ban on road building and timber sales on designated roadless acreage. Two days after the ruling, Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth ordered forest managers to "not approve any further management activities in inventoried roadless areas that would be prohibited by the 2001 Roadless Rule. If there's a poster child for such a project, it's the Mike's Gulch salvage timber sale in Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Two years ago, the Forest Service outraged environmentalists by awarding salvage logging contracts within roadless areas burned...

• High Country News
• August 12, 2009

• Species Won't Lose Federal Protection ; Bush Policy Equates Wild Fish with Their Hatchery Cousins

No salmon or steelhead will lose protection under the Endangered Species Act, despite a Bush administration policy equating wild fish with their hatchery-raised cousins. There will be no stocks de-listed," said Brian Gorman, spokesman for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle, on Thursday.

• The Columbian
• May 28, 2004

• Polar Bear Meltdown?

Last week the Bush administration proposed to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. It's a futile gesture that only signals a weakening in the administration's earlier strong stance against global warming hysteria. The proposal resulted from a lawsuit settlement the Bush administration reached in February with Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In return for these groups dropping their effort to force the administration to grant polar bears "threatened" status under the ESA, the administration agreed to begin a rulemaking to list the bears.

• The Washington Times
• January 01, 2007

• Bush Proposal Would Relax Endangered Species Regulations

WASHINGTON - Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press.

• Charleston Gazette
• August 13, 2008