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Holly Doremus | January 20, 2009

Bush Regulatory Record: Transferring Polluted Water

Editor’s Note: With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues. Following is the fourth of several entries published before President Bush returns to Texas. In this one, Holly Doremus […]

Joe Feller | January 20, 2009

Bush on Livestock Grazing on Public Lands

Editor’s Note: With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues. Following is the third of several entries that we’ll run on CPRBlog before President Bush returns to Texas. Below, […]

Dale Goble | January 19, 2009

A Bit More on the Bush Record on Endangered Species

Editor’s Note:  With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues.   Following is the second of several entries that we’ll run on CPRBlog before President Bush returns to Texas.  Below, […]

A. Dan Tarlock | January 19, 2009

Bush Record on Biodiversity and Endangered Species

Editor’s Note:  With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues.   Following is the first of several entries that we’ll run on CPRBlog before President Bush returns to Texas.  A. […]

A. Dan Tarlock | January 18, 2009

Bush Record on Biodiversity and Endangered Species

Editor’s Note:  With the Bush Administration’s remaining time in office now measured in hours, we asked CPR Member Scholars to remind us of some of the less publicized moments of the Administration’s record on environmental issues.   Following is the first of several entries that we’ll run on CPRBlog before President Bush returns to Texas.  A. […]

Matthew Freeman | January 16, 2009

CPR Scholar/Authors Discuss Their New Books on Federal Preemption

Within the last 45 days, CPR Member Scholars have published two books focused on the question of federal preemption. The issue has arisen in two forms in recent years. During the Bush Administration, various regulatory agencies of the federal government – with leadership from Bush appointees – sought to use federal regulations to undercut citizens’ […]

Margaret Clune Giblin | January 15, 2009

Bush’s Blue Legacy Remains Murky

President Bush’s designation of 195,000 square miles of marine monuments last week drew praise from a wide constituency—including many environmentalists, who have so often been at odds with the Bush Administration over the past eight years.  Without a doubt, President Bush’s use of the Antiquities Act to preserve the Marianas, Pacific Remote Islands and Rose […]

Matthew Freeman | January 14, 2009

Not just little adults

If you’re a consumer of health and environmental news, you’ve almost certainly heard it said that “children are not just little adults.” The warning comes up a lot in the context of medical research, because children’s bodies metabolize some things differently than do adults. That’s particularly important because somewhere in the vicinity of 80 percent […]

Matt Shudtz | January 13, 2009

The Bush Administration’s Last Words on Perchlorate

After years of study and analysis on the public health implications of regulating perchlorate in drinking water, EPA has come to the conclusion that … it needs to do more study and analysis.   In fact, that is the conclusion of two different EPA offices. Within a two-week span, EPA’s Office of Water and its […]