11th-Hour Assault on Wolves (well, of course!)

[G_j]

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1239&s_einterest=C3C4

11th-Hour Assault on Wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies!

With the clock running out on the Bush/Administration, federal officials have launched a final attempt to ram through a plan that could lead to the slaughter of as many as two-thirds of the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Rockies wolf population.

Please fill out the form below to urge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to go back to the drawing board and come up with a balanced and responsible management plan for our wolves. Comments will be collected by Defenders and submitted on your behalf.

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1239&s_einterest=C3C4

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Done. nt

[G_j]

2. Bush Trashing Environmental and Consumer Protections as a Parting Gift

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=389&topic_id=4349157&mesg_id=4349157

A Last Push To Deregulate
White House to Ease Many Rules

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 31, 2008; Page A01

The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.

"They want these rules to continue to have an impact long after they leave office," said Matthew Madia, a regulatory expert at OMB Watch, a nonprofit group critical of what it calls the Bush administration's penchant for deregulating in areas where industry wants more freedom. He called the coming deluge "a last-minute assault on the public . . . happening on multiple fronts."


White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: "This administration has taken extraordinary measures to avoid rushing regulations at the end of the term. And yes, we'd prefer our regulations stand for a very long time -- they're well reasoned and are being considered with the best interests of the nation in mind."


..more..

[Runcible Spoon]

3. this fucking makes me so mad

done, knr.

[BlueGADawg]

4. If he gets any of this stuff through

i just hope Obama will come in and executive order this bullshit to the trash bin just like shrub did to all of the Clinton administration environmental regulations that were passed before his last term was up. These assholes have no shame. I hope we can rebuild our government agencies to function as they should under a (hopefully) new President Obama.

I have spent years volunteering for the Forest Service and it has been pitiful to watch how it has been decimated from lack of funds to the point they almost can't function anymore, especially law enforcement and recreation. So much great knowledge and experience has been lost forever... :(

[G_j]

5. that is why they are doing this earlier than Clinton did.

so the damage CAN'T be undone by executive order.
:-(

[G_j]

6. ==

[TBF]

7. Done & Kick

:kick:

[wildflowergardener]

8. Regulations

Can regulations like this be changed without congresses approval?

Meg