Bush Gives The Finger To Endangered Species

No surprise here. Just down right depressing.

The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.

New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said late Monday the changes were needed to ensure that the Endangered Species Act would not be used as a "back door" to regulate the gases blamed for global warming.

If Obama wins, as I hope and predict, it is going to take him years just to undo all the bad executive orders issued by the current ass sitting in the Oval Office. What he may never be able to do is to eliminate all ideological hacks that have been given civil service jobs that will continue to push rules like this.

Via Balloon Juice