When his plans to drill, baby, drill in scenic Utah canyons was foiled, Bush sat back and came up with something else to go out with a bang on.  He’s relaxing the Endangered Species Act.

New amendments to the act will reduce the input of federal scientists and keep the Act from being used to combat global warming.  This will effectively eliminate mandatory environmental reviews on major projects which construction and other federal agencies have long complained are unnecessary.  More details here.

Obama will seek to overturn the new amendments using the Congressional Review Act.

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