EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: Bush Admin breaks the law again: Trees |
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The importance of this article is, as far as this post goes, this administration is demonstrating its utter contempt for the rule of law and the Kingship of the presidency in virtually any and all situations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/opinion/25mon3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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The Roadless Rule Takes a New Turn
Published: September 25, 2006
You have to wonder when the Bush administration is going to stop ramming its head against the same wall on forest policy.
The Forest Service has been trying for several years to get rid of the �roadless rule� enacted near the end of the Clinton administration to protect millions of roadless acres of national forest from logging and other commercial intrusions. ... ...So last year the administration simply rescinded the old rule by regulatory fiat and replaced it with a less protective rule of its own.
Now that strategy has been derailed, at least for now. Last week Elizabeth LaPorte, a federal district judge in San Francisco, overturned the Bush rule and largely reinstated the Clinton protections.
Her most telling argument was that the Forest Service had flat-out failed to observe the regulatory protocols required of such a major rule change, sidestepped the detailed environmental analysis mandated by law and ignored the potential impacts of the new policy on endangered species.
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