Posted on 11/21/2008 6:11:16 AM PST by jessduntno
Bush angers environmentalists with last-minute rule changes
By Jim Tankersley November 21, 2008
Many of the 'midnight regulations' open wilderness for oil and gas drilling, and loosen environmental safeguards. President Bush has pushed 53 through in three weeks, researchers say.
Reporting from Washington -- As the hour grows late, President Bush, like many chief executives before him, seems to hear the call of the wild.
Honoring a tradition that dates at least to the Reagan administration, Bush is pushing through a bundle of controversial last-minute changes in federal rules -- many of them involving the environment, national parks and public lands in the West.
President Clinton used his final weeks and months in office to strengthen a host of environmental rules and lock up federal lands with wilderness and other protective designations. Bush is using the same window of opportunity to open wilderness for oil and gas drilling, and to loosen safeguards for air, water and wildlife.
In recent days, the Bush administration announced new rules to speed oil shale development across 2 million rocky acres in the West. It scheduled an auction for drilling rights alongside three national parks. It has also set in motion processes to finalize major changes in endangered species protection, allow more mining waste to flow into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from air pollution reporting.
Researchers who track "midnight regulations" say Bush pushed 53 of them through the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the last three weeks, nearly double the pace of Clinton at this point in his final year.
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Bush should have done this years ago, not at the last minute of his administration.
“Bush angers environmentalists...”
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I don’t have to read any further to know The President absolutely did the RIGHT thing.....
Eff the ecocommies.
Bush should have flipped them the bird about 3 years ago.
I agree and any laws that hep encourage oil production are EXTREMELY important.
Exactly. These rule changes he's making will be reversed in a couple of months.
Environmentalists are probably so mad that they’ll drive their SUVS to the nearest national park to protest.
Bush pushed 53 of them through the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the last three weeks, nearly double the pace of Clinton at this point in his final year.That's because Bubba Clinton was busy on other things. Like Pardoning Marc Rich, Narco-Terrorists, the FALN PR Terrorists, putting the WH China in their overcoat lining, stealing the silverware and (cough) getting Lewinsky's.
Hopefull the next headline reads
“ Bush angers immigrant rights groups, pardons border patrol agents”
“Bush angers Obama administration, pardons entire administration from all past present and future war crimes”
LOL funny, but true!
When we invaded Iraq, I remember passing some war protesters in downtown Baltimore, one of which was screaming “NO WAR FOR OIL” and holding up a sign out of the back of her Ford Expedition. I stopped and asked if that was her Expedition and she said, “Yes, why?” I just shook my head and kept walking.
This was written by Jim “In The Tank For Obama” Tankersley? ;-)
So if Bush can make these rules and regulations, Obama can come right along and un-make them can’t he?
“Bush angers environmentalists...”
Tough!
“So if Bush can make these rules and regulations, Obama can come right along and un-make them can’t he?”
Obama’s halo will be green.
“I don’t have to read any further to know The President absolutely did the RIGHT thing.....”
Hahahahaha, yeah...wish that was a headline that we saw more often in the last eight years...
(Bush angers environmentalists with last-minute rule changes)
I only have one thing to say about this headline.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah................
Liberalism really is a mental disorder!
Should read, "Bush pleases the consumers, supports a recovering economy."
If environmentalists want to save oil they can take a hike.
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