Obama reverses Bush endangered species rules

[kpete]

Source: The Hill

Obama reverses Bush endangered species rules
By Reid Wilson
Posted: 04/29/09 10:01 AM
President Obama’s administration has reversed a controversial last-minute rule made by the Bush administration that critics said would have undermined protections for endangered species.

The rule, put in place in the waning days of the Bush administration, would have allowed federal agencies to determine on their own whether their actions would impact threatened or endangered species, bypassing two federal agencies that otherwise administer the Endangered Species Act.


The rule also would have narrowed the scope of actions subject to review and limited consultations government agencies could have made on issues surrounding global warming.

Rolling back the rule will require federal agencies to once again check with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before taking action that could harm species in trouble.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-reverses-bush-endangered-species-rules-2009-04-29.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. Oh, hell yes!!!

[Glorfindel]

2. Hooray! What excellent news

recommended and thanks for letting us know.

[Bette Noir]

3. Thank you, Mr. Obama

This is one of the things he's doing right. A+ for environmental protection.

[HERVEPA]

4. Wait! Isn't Obama just Bush Lite? I don't understand why he'd do this.

:sarcasm:

[Mithreal]

5. Roll em all back. Cheers to our democratically elected President Obama. nt

[droidamus2]

6. Just goes to show ya

The fact that Bush pushed through all these last minute changes that could so easily be reversed just shows you how caught up in his own suppposed power Bush was. There a number of different instances one being in trying to extend his tax cuts and other budgetary ideas beyond his own presidency where he felt he had the right to restrict and control those that followed. I don't think his little supposed joke about how it would 'be easier if it was a dictatorship as long as he was the dictator' was that much of a joke. I think with the 'unitary executive' idea he and Cheney saw the presidency as more akin to a monarch than the top representative of a democratically elected government.

[liberal N proud]

7. Not bad

[pansypoo53219]

8. butbutbut

georgee was the deciderer.

[GetTheRightVote]

9. So sorry Mr. B but you no longer reign as King of US, animals now safe

from your greed. I only wish the rest of us human beings were...

:kick:

[barbtries]

10. that's my president

oh i am so glad he won.