Operation "screw over America before leaving office" has started

[Anima]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the U.S. presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also sprinting to enact environmental policy changes before leaving power.

Whether it's getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups.

The one change most environmentalists want, a mandatory program to cut climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, is not among these so-called "midnight regulations."

http://fe5.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com/news/us/story/nm/20081103/pl_nm/us_bush

 

[Bahir]

Hopefully, those changes will be reversed.

 

[RipCity]

Honestly, environmental groups care little about what is best for America as a whole. They are pretty much the most fanatical of any special interest group out there and cannot see any argument other than their own. I could care less what they have to say about what Bush is doing with his remaining time in office.

 

[huevonkiller]

The climate change groups can be indeed fanatical, but this administration doesn't have the kind of street cred left to call them out in public effectively.