The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…wait…mwa-haa-haa. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. Heh…hmm, well, it’s doing what it’s been doing for Messers Bush and Cheney since, well, their era began. No surprise, but, we gotta keep sloggin’ on, no?

• EPA HaHaHa

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If you are even lightly interested in the well-being of our natural environment, then you already knew the Bush administration was entering office with a non-nature friendly agenda, back in 2001. Well, many of our worst imaginings have come true. He has placed industry shills to head most of the federal regulatory departments, and it shows. These people worked for industry before they were charged to act in a neutral way to represent the federal government agencies such as the EPA, and they will go back to industry when their terms have ended. Meanwhile, they do all they can to destroy the protections that hard science has put in place over many decades, sometimes even rewriting or censuring scientific reports, even though they themselves have no scientific credentials. Read on for some excellent coverage on the topic.

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Well, they are at it again. Of course, now is the the time, nearing the end of a president’s term, when favors and special dispensations are distributed around for those friendly to the administration. Not that Bush & Co. didn’t pretty much do as they pleased earlier, but I guess they have the wafer-thin advantage that comes with being at the lame-duck stage, enabling them to do just a wee bit more environmental damage before they leave the White House. I’m talking about mountaintop removal, the destruction of mountain tops, valleys and streams in order to mine coal deposits, and a move by the administration that tries to make it just a bit easier by relaxing environmental protections.

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More bad news for nature and conservationists:

• 2007 Gutting of Endandered Species Act

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