Reply #44: Bush Environmental record in 2005

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EPA to make toxics reporting standards more lenient for industry (09/16/05)

BLM director encouraged ranchers' lawsuits against her own agency (08/29/05)

White House proposes weak fuel economy standards for gas guzzlers (08/23/05)

Federal judge rebukes Bush administration for downgrading salamander protections (08/19/05)

Bush administration devalues estimated contribution of forest recreation to economy (08/15/05)

Bush administration slashes habitat protections for salmon (08/12/05)

Federal agency halves seasonal wetlands habitat (08/12/05)

EPA shelves bad-news report about auto fuel efficiency until after energy bill vote (07/26/05)

Interior Dept. drills away environmental protections (07/21/05)

BLM's new grazing rules issued in disregard of gov't scientists' concerns (07/16/05)

FDA experts often culled from the ranks of industry (07/14/05)

Federal fisheries agency broke the law, investigation finds (07/13/05)

BLM limits citizen input on drilling on public lands (06/30/05)

EPA to allow mine wastewater discharge into Alaskan bay (06/29/05)

FWS reinstates whistle-blower employee (06/29/05)

New fisheries rules could harm fish (06/22/05)

Pentagon ignored perchlorate pollution, GAO finds (06/21/05)

Former oil lobbyist employed by White House leaves to join ExxonMobil (06/15/05)

Bush administration disregards science on grazing damage (06/15/05)

Forest Service employee punished for reporting pesticide misuse (05/27/05)

Judge rules Bush administration played down threat to endangered fish (05/26/05)

EPA dumps its sewage dumping proposal (05/19/05)

BLM underestimates wildlife threats from drilling in Colorado (04/21/05)

EPA's mercury pollution plan won't meet reduction targets on time (04/21/05)

BLM shutting out public on Wyoming drilling plans (04/14/05)

EPA proposes weaker selenium standard (04/13/05)

Federal wildlife officials drastically trim endangered toad protections (04/13/05)

EPA decides against testing pesticides on children (04/08/05)

FWS cites national security as reason to reduce habitat protection in California (04/08/05)

States sue EPA over new mercury rule (03/29/05)

White House weakens EPA cancer safeguards (03/29/05)

BLM plans to open up protected desert land to recreation and development (03/24/05)

Florida crocodiles to lose endangered status (03/24/05)

Bush administration appeals mountaintop mining defeat (03/18/05)

EPA weakens mercury reduction requirements for power plants (03/15/05)

Federal court rules illegal EPA's lax factory-farm pollution rule (02/28/05)

EPA seeks controversial expansion of voluntary pollution-reduction programs (02/23/05)

Forest Service sued over its Sierra Nevada logging plan (02/20/05)

EPA making illegal, secret agreements with pesticide makers, NRDC charges (02/17/05)

More pollution at national parks promised by Bush drilling juggernaut (01/28/05)

FWS removes federal protections for imperiled mouse (01/28/05)

BLM opens tortoise habitat to motorized recreation (01/27/05)

Fish and Wildlife Service discards scientific advances on endangered species (01/27/05)

Otero Mesa grassland opened to drilling (01/24/05)

EPA shirks the growing electronics-waste dilemma (01/21/05)

EPA grants amnesty to polluting factory farms (01/21/05)

Industry buys access to Bush inauguration (01/20/05)