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 [thezoo] Bush to Phase Out Environment by 2009: President George W. Bush confirmed today that his gutting of the Endangered Species Act is part of a broader plan to phase out the environment entirely by the time he leaves office in January of 2009.

[News / dotshout!] Andy Borowitz: Bush to Phase Out Environment by 2009: President George W. Bush confirmed today that his gutting of the Endangered Species Act is part of a broader plan to phase out the environment.

 [Rogertaraxms's Weblog] Endangered Earth Online #370: Proceeds from the sale of its new organic polar bear shirt will help the Center remind everyone to travel smarter, drive less, conserve energy and otherwise reduce our carbon footprint.         Bush Administration Proposal Sets Energy Policy Back 20 Years   On September 7, 2006, the Bush administration released a proposal to gut the 1992 Energy Policy Act by delaying the act’s goal of reducing by 30 percent U.S. consumption of petroleum-based fuels for transportation. The 2010 target date would be pushed back to 2030, shifting the problem to our children’s generation when it will be too late.

 [Growth is Madness!] Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral ...: Even top rank scientists have not found a way to communicate to humanity what people somehow need to hear and see: the reckless dissipation of Earth’s limited resources, the relentless degradation of Earth’s frangible environment, and the destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world’s gigantic, artificially designed, manmade global economy continues to speed headlong toward the point of its unsustainability and collapses first.

 [Media Mouse: Grand Rapids, Michigan News and Independent Media] National and International Headlines for January 16: Members of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Endangered Species Coalition are calling for congressional probes and better oversight of how the administration interacts with government scientists. The administration has been accused of censoring reports highlighting global warming and of gutting the Endangered Species Act.

[Red Tape Blog] Governor Granholm Needs to Step Up To the Environmental Plate: Last year, while the executive wrangled with legislators over the state budget, environmental stewardship in Michigan hit such a low-water mark in the state that in two high-profile cases, an unlikely savior -- the Bush administration -- stepped in to protect local resources from state action or inaction. In the rivers and neighborhoods of the Midland area, the federal EPA moved last year to hasten clean-up of dioxin contamination.

 [Tribe.net: ! * POLITICS * !] What Is He Capable Of?: Bush's signing statements where he reserves the right not to abide by the law he's just adopted, his foreign policy asserting his right to preemptive strikes, his denial of Habeas Corpus, his fixation on retaining the torture option, his rejection of subpoenas from Congress, his diminishment of people by giving them nicknames - at different scales, these are emotional bullying tactics. Friends from his younger days remember that in basketball and tennis games Bush would force opponents who had beaten him to continue playing until he had worn down their will so he could beat them.

[Gay Opinion Blog] Bush Gutting The Endangered Species Act: Bush Gutting The Endangered Species Act. With little-noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designate domestic animals and plants for protection .

[BlogJunkies] Bush to Phase Out Environment by 2009: Bush confirmed today that his gutting of the Endangered Species Act is part of a broader plan to phase out the environment entirely by the time he leaves office in January of 2009.

 [My Blog] SF events 6.1 Raindance This Wknd, Harmony Fest Next wknd.: Representatives of San Francisco-based groups will compare and contrast the scope and activities of local activism vs. global activism.

[Oasis California News Blog] Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility: "My gut tells me that all this foment [on the religious left] is bound to create more involvement in politics," he said. "I don't know whether there's going to be more of them numerically, but you don't need greater numbers to have a political impact;

 [My Blog] Poetry: My inferences are bush league suppositories Pipe dreams while smoking morning glory seeds Baking cookies and mowing lawns Faking nookie and glowing mons A room like a brick blocked hat Pacing passionate at her penthouse flat .

[LeftWord: The Best Liberal Blog Posts] CLEAR AS NIGHT AND DAY: CAROL VOISIN v GREG WALDEN (OR-02): I asked Rick Browne, a Firedoglake community member, to give us a run-down of the difficult race in his Oregon district between a shining progressive, Carol Voisin and a truly hideous and venal reactionary incumbent, Greg Walden. Rick, an independent, has never been involved in a political campaign before.

 [Open Source Information News] USA Senate - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT””MOTION TO PROCEED: For 5 years, the Bush administration's National Security Agency, with the help of the country's largest telecommunication companies, has been collecting your e-mail, accumulating information on your web browser, and gathering details on your Internet activity, all without warrants and in violation of the United States constitution and several Federal statutes and State laws. Even after the program was exposed by The New York Times in December of 2005, the President and other government officials consistently defended the NSA's activities, insisting that the NSA only collects communications into or from the United States where one party to the communication is someone they believe to be a member of al-Qaida or an associated terrorist organization.

 [Tribe.net: Political Junkies] Re: pombo's all-out assault: Environmental groups say it is crucial that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have an opportunity to present scientific studies showing effects of chemicals on animals and plants because the groups have used the evidence in court to force the EPA to limit the use of dozens of pesticides that could hurt salmon, steelhead and the California red-legged frog.

 [SF Bay Area Indymedia] Fishermen, Farmers Protest Pombo's Extinction Bill: However, the way to do it is not by gutting the law, but by strengthening and improving it. Unless we want to see many more fish kills like those that have occurred on the Klamath River and Butte Creek in recent years, we need to stop .

 [GNN Blogs] Project Censored:Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 part-1: According to a BBC report, Halliburton, which took thirty to forty million dollars from its Iranian operations in 2003, “was winding down its work due to a poor business environment.” However, Halliburton has a long history of doing .

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