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NRDC Rounds Up Obama’s Environmental Progress

When it was announced last week that Obama was set to reverse Bush-era rules that weakened protection of endangered species, we wondered aloud whether anyone was keeping track of just how much progress the new administration has made thus far in terms of the environment. We should have known that the National Resources Defense Council [...]

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Obama Reverses Bush-Era Endangered Species Rule

President Obama has shelved a Bush-era rule that weakens protection of endangered species, he announced on Tuesday. The regulations allow agencies to decide for themselves whether projects like highways, dams and mines could harm animals and plants listed under the Endangered Species Act. The rule reduces the mandatory independent reviews that government scientists have been [...]

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Update: Oil Leases in Utah Parklands Canceled

The Obama administration is canceling Bush-era oil drilling leases on more than 130,000 acres near two national parks and other protected areas in Utah. Bush’s Interior Department had planned to auction off the land in December for oil and gas drilling, but the auction was disrupted by activist Tim DeChristopher. The land sale had been [...]

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A Round-Up of Bush’s Midnight Regulations on the Environment

In a January 6th, 2009 press conference on conservation and the environment, Bush declared, “The new steps I’ve announced today are the capstone of an eight-year commitment to strong environmental protection and conservation.” He was referring to last-minute action to establish three new national monuments in the Pacific Ocean – what was hailed even by [...]

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Interior Department Moves to Increase Logging on Oregon Land

Oregon is bracing for the revival of a decades-long battle over logging of old-growth timber. The Interior Department recently announced their intention to double the rate of logging on 2.6 million acres of federally owned forests in southwestern Oregon, ignoring the objections of the governor and two federal agencies in charge of protecting the quality [...]

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Activist Disrupts Sale of Utah Oil and Gas Drilling Leases

On December 19th, the Bush Administration held an auction in Salt Lake City for oil and gas drilling leases on land adjacent to national parks. A lot of people have been upset about this ‘fire sale’ ever since it was announced, and one activist decided to do something about it.
Tim DeChristopher, fully expecting to be [...]

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