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

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

Bills recently filed in the Florida House of Representatives and Senate that would require independent reviews of land owned by county property appraisers are not a "knee-jerk reaction" to a Pinellas County land scandal, as Pinellas Appraiser Jim Smith claims. ...more

November 9, 2007