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The administration announces it will consider adjusting the
boundaries of 22 national monuments. |
Bush declares that CO2 is not considered a pollutant under
the Clean Air Act.
Christine Todd Whitman announces the administration will not back ratification
of the Kyoto Protocol. |
Bush's budget contains no money to fund court orders brought
by citizen suits under the Endangered Species Act.
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The administration makes it clear that it intends to let individual
national forests to opt out of the roadless rule on a case-by-case basis.
Ann Veneman suspends Forest Service rules guiding the development of national
forest management plans. |
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Bush outlines his global warming agenda, calling for more studies
and rejecting the ntion of binding pullution cuts.
Bush backs legislation to weaken presidential authority to create new national
monuments.
Gale Norton recommends the government not appeal an Idaho court ruling denying
water rights considered critical to the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge. |
Forest Service grants Forest Service chief Dale Bosworth sole
authority over roadless area decisions.
Bosworth announces a directive approving road building and logging in the Tongass
and other national forests. |
The Office of Management and Budget says it will give greater
credence to cost-benefit analyses and outside reviews in evaluating regulatory
changes.
OMB director John Graham invites industry interests to identify regulations
they find overly burdensome. |
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The Corps issues its new policy on wetlands, essentially ignoring
established 'no net loss' goals. |
The Forest Service relaxes rules on mandatory environmental
impact reviews on projects in roadless areas. |
The Interior Department declares that polar bears will not
be threatened by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The FWS concludes that logging does not endanger the spotted owl, reopening
national forests in the Northwest to timber sales. |
The administration announce a two-year review of as many as
10 areas designated 'critical habitats' for endangered species. |
A Forest Service memo states that road building near streams
in national forests can go ahead without Clean Water Act permits.
The OMB calls for all agencies to adopt its 'science-based' approach to rulemaking,
including the use of cost-benefit analyses.
Fish and Wildllife employees are told submit all comments related to drilling
in the Actic National Wildlife Refuge to the Interior department's PR office. |
The FWS scales back by 130,000 acres the land to be designated
'critical habitat' for the Quino checkerspot butterfly.
Bosworth instructs BLM heads to recommend changes to the Northwest Forest Plan. |
The Interior Department cancels a two-year ban on new mining
in and around Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon.
The Forest Service proposes opening 140,000 acres in California's Los Padres
National Forest to oil and gas leasing. |
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The administration sides with Daimler-Chrysler and General
Motors in a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's zero-emission vehicle rule.
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The administration proposes increased logging on public lands
in the name of wildfire prevention.
The EPA withdraws a Clinton era rule calling for federal oversight of clean-up
projects on 300,000 miles of rivers and 5 million acres of lakes. |
The Forest Service issues a proposal to exclude more timber
sales from environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act. |
The Administration seeks exemptions from the international phase-out
of methyl-bromide a major ozone depletor and carcinogen. |
The EPA delays new regulations covering water pollution at
drilling sites. |
The administration sides with the auto industry by increasing
fuel efficiency standards by a mere 1.5 miles per gallon over the next three years.
The Interior Department tells Congress it will withdraw protected status for
3 million acres of land in Utah.
The BLM relaxes rules on permitting for oil and gas drilling on public land. |
Administration officials meet with factory farmers to
discuss the industry's proposal for "safe harbor" exemptions from the
Clean Air Act and Superfund. |
The Department of Agriculture announces plans to further weaken
the roadless rule.
The administration releases its "Draft Report on the Environment,"
leaving out key data on global climate change and pollution sources. |
A newspaper reports that the EPA is padding enforcement
stats with counter-terrorism and narcotics cases.
According to published reports, EPA analyses of alternatives to the administration's
"Clear Skies" plan have been rejected or shelved. |
