Ugh. Just a friendly reminder that we are not through this yet.

Dec 15, 2008 10:26

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24991066/bushs_final_fu

one small excerpt, but keep in mind this is just one small part of the story: The most jaw-dropping of Bush's rule changes is his effort to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act. Under a rule submitted in November, federal agencies would no longer be required to have government scientists assess the impact on imperiled species before giving the go-ahead to logging, mining, drilling, highway building or other development. The rule would also prohibit federal agencies from taking climate change into account in weighing the impact of projects that increase greenhouse emissions - effectively dooming polar bears to death-by-global-warming. According to Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, "They've taken the single biggest threat to wildlife and said, 'We're going to pretend it doesn't exist, for regulatory purposes.'"

Once again I'd like to thank the American Republican voter for helping make the world a better place four years ago.
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