Obama angers enviros many times

brought to you by Sasha Paris

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.

Human Ecology in Action.

Ambitious plans were adopted to "green" Vancouver (Canada Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090505.wbcgreen05art0034/BNStory/National/home

...and slash Berkeley's greenhouse gas emissions (San Fransisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/06/BAMM17G0VB.DTL

Associated Press
Gray wolves in parts of the Rockies and Great Lakes regions were officially removed--again--from the Endangered Species List.
http://news.aol.com/article/gray-wolves-off-endangered-list/460212

Kansas' governer left for a federal position, and her replacement approved one of the long-vetoed coal power plants.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/05/05/ap6378113.html

The USDA proposed new cow-grazing requirements for organic milk
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/11/19/us_revises_rules_on_cow_grazing_for_organic_dairies/

Grist
The Obama admin upheld a Bush-era rule preventing use of the Endangered Species Act to regulate activities that harm Threatened polar bears outside their range (i.e. greenhouse-gas emitters)
http://www.grist.org/article/index/2009-05-08-polar-bear-climate-salazar/PALL/

The EPA proposed two (highly criticized) models for measuring the net greenhouse-gas emissions of biofuels, land use included.
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-05-epa-ethanol-biofuel/

New York Times
The BLM (may have) authorized new uranium mining permits near the Grand Caynon, on lands previously off-limits to said mining.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/06/06greenwire-blm-authorizes-grand-canyon-uranium-exploratio-10572.html

The Obama admin had been urged to amend the ozone-depleter-related Montreal Treaty to include immediate phase out of potently 'climate-warming' hydroflourocarbons. They decided not to.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/obama-not-seeking-climate-action-under-ozone-treaty/

Obama announced a bunch of new federal efforts to support production of corn ethanol and other biofuels.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/white-house-steps-up-support-for-biofuels/