The Bush Administration is making a lot of last-minute changes to environmental policies and regulations
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/4/105841/607
A less flagrantly biased version of the above, if you insist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004749_pf.html
Among these changes:
Waiving requirements for pollution discharge permits to farms (including factory feedlots) that "claim" not to pollute water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27521859/
Officially opening 360,000 more acres of eastern Utah to oil and gas leasing (Salt Lake Tribune)
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10902372
Designating two huge new marine reserves in the south Pacific, which Cheney and some others don't like [Great political move--pleasing environmentalists without threatening the lands or livelihoods of continental Americans]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042_pf.html
Endangered species were also discussed muchly this week:
Ten thousand smuggled sea-turtle eggs were confiscated in Malaysia, and some "may still hatch in a conservation area." [Would they just be buried and left there?] (San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/04/international/i000940S21.DTL
A fungal disease was blamed for winter die-offs of little brown bats in parts of the northeastern US
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/science/04obbats.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
On three seriously-declining species and current attempts to save them: axolotls (giant, awesome-looking Mexican salamanders) Mississippi gopher frogs and Tasmanian devils (all from Associated Press)
http://news.aol.com/article/mexican-water-monster-nears-extinction/235275
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27502386/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27522837/
"Big Ethanol" (to quote Grist) is struggling. [OK, not a "species" but I threw it in here anyway]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/business/05ethanol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/4/105841/607
A less flagrantly biased version of the above, if you insist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004749_pf.html
Among these changes:
Waiving requirements for pollution discharge permits to farms (including factory feedlots) that "claim" not to pollute water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27521859/
Officially opening 360,000 more acres of eastern Utah to oil and gas leasing (Salt Lake Tribune)
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10902372
Designating two huge new marine reserves in the south Pacific, which Cheney and some others don't like [Great political move--pleasing environmentalists without threatening the lands or livelihoods of continental Americans]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042_pf.html
Endangered species were also discussed muchly this week:
Ten thousand smuggled sea-turtle eggs were confiscated in Malaysia, and some "may still hatch in a conservation area." [Would they just be buried and left there?] (San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/04/international/i000940S21.DTL
A fungal disease was blamed for winter die-offs of little brown bats in parts of the northeastern US
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/science/04obbats.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
On three seriously-declining species and current attempts to save them: axolotls (giant, awesome-looking Mexican salamanders) Mississippi gopher frogs and Tasmanian devils (all from Associated Press)
http://news.aol.com/article/mexican-water-monster-nears-extinction/235275
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27502386/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27522837/
"Big Ethanol" (to quote Grist) is struggling. [OK, not a "species" but I threw it in here anyway]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/business/05ethanol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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