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It’s been a very, very bad week for the Bush Administration. It can’t win for trying with federal judges, inspector generals and even the Supreme Court taking it to task for destroying the environment, ignoring environmental laws and abusing federal scientists. Having caused much of the administration’s headache, the Center for Biological Diversity has established a fund to fed ex a carton of aspirin to Pennsylvania Avenue.


SUPREME COURT REJECTS BUSH REFUSAL TO TAKE ON GLOBAL WARMING

In response to a case brought by Center for Biological Diversity, 12 states and cities and 12 other environmental groups, the Supreme Court today struck down the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate car emissions under the Clean Air Act. U.S. vehicles contribute about 28 percent of U.S. carbon emissions and six percent of all carbon emissions worldwide. They are a major and readily controllable source of global warming.

The ruling pulls the rug out from under the Bush’s repeated assertions that federal agencies and existing laws like the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act can not regulate greenhouse gases. In imperial fashion, Bush asserts that only the White House may act on global warming. And, of course, it has elected not to do so.

For more information on the suit and copy of the court’s ruling:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/global-warming-04-02-2007.html


BUSH PLAN TO GUT ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT EXPOSED

The Center for Biological Diversity and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have exposed a secret plan by the Bush administration plan to gut the Endangered Species Act from top to bottom. The leaked Bush plan made headlines across the country last including National Public Radio, MSNBC, ABC, and Reuters, prompting editorial denouncements by Newsday, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, and the Arizona Republic.

See the Center’s detailed analysis of how the draft plan would cripple the Endangered Species Act.


BUSH APPOINTEE ROCKED BY ENDANGERED SPECIES SCANDAL

The Center for Biological Diversity’s campaign to have Julie MacDonald fired for abusing and overruling federal scientists trying to protect endangered species took a big step forward last week. The political appointee’s reign of terror over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will surely end in the wake of an Inspector General report concluding that the administration’s “attack dog” bullied federal scientists, altered scientific analyses, shared confidential government documents with industry lawyers and lobbyists, and even sent government documents to her internet fantasy role-playing partner.

The federal investigation was launched in response to complaints from anonymous federal biologists, an expose by the Washington Post, and calls by the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups to investigate and oust MacDonald. In response to the new report, the Washington Post has also called on MacDonald to resign.

For more information on MacDonald’s antics and the Center’s efforts to stop her, see Endangered Earth #373 (11-02-06), #377 (12-14-06), and #378 (12-22-06).


BUSH NATIONAL ROLLBACK OF FOREST AND WILDLIFE PROTECTIONS STRUCK DOWN

On March 30, 2007, a federal judge struck down a 2005 regulation by the Bush administration that undermined forest and wildlife protections across the 191-million-acre national forest system from coast to coast. The plan eliminated a requirement to maintain viable populations of wildlife that had been in place since 1982, axed meaningful public participation, and exempted forest plan decisions from the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. The regulation was struck down by a federal judge in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, Citizens for Better Forestry, Defenders of Wildlife, The Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, Vermont Natural Resources Council and other groups, and the state of California.


 

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