The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sued the Bush administration Tuesday in hopes of stopping a new policy that would allow people to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges. ...more

December 30, 2008

Just six weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the Bush administration issued revised endangered species regulations Thursday to reduce the input of federal scientists and to block the law from being used to fight global warming. ...more

December 12, 2008

Remember when President Bush promised his administration would seek "balance" on environmental issues? ...more

August 22, 2008

Unrealistic Training Regarding "Florida Troops Move From Metal Huts To The Holiday Inn" (Nation/World, Aug. 15): ...more

August 21, 2008

Energy companies bid hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday to explore for oil and natural gas beneath 1.8 million acres in the western Gulf of Mexico, while looking forward to the possibility of future drilling in federal waters now off-limits. ...more

August 21, 2008

Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. 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. ...more

August 12, 2008

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an agreement that Georgia reached with the Army Corps of Engineers for water rights to a major federal reservoir outside Atlanta, handing Alabama and Florida a major victory in the states' years-long water wars. ...more

February 6, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley agreed on Monday to work together on a new "drought emergency plan" for the three states to take effect as soon as mid-March. ...more

December 18, 2007

The Bush administration began reducing the water flow from Georgia into the Apalachicola River on Friday, despite a new federal analysis confirming Florida's claims that some federally protected mussels and Gulf sturgeon would be killed. ...more

November 17, 2007

Gov. Charlie Crist emerged from a meeting Thursday with federal officials and his Georgia and Alabama counterparts saying he is "confident" they will work toward a regional water-crisis plan that protects Floridians. ...more

November 2, 2007