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Congress to Limit Public Participation in Forest Service Decisions 07/11/2006
After courts in California and Montana struck down Forest Service rules that limited public participation in certain logging decisions, the Senate has added language to an appropriations bill that would reinstate those rules. Read More

States Losing Ability to Protect Public Due to Federal Preemptions 06/13/2006
Despite the party's repeated use in recent years of states' rights rhetoric, the GOP-dominated Congress and Bush White House have been assiduously working to eliminate the ability of state governments to protect the public. Read More

Needed Health and Safety Regulations Left Idle on Agency 'To-Do' Lists 05/02/2006
With the release of their Spring 2006 regulatory agendas on Apr. 24, federal agencies once again relegate important health and safety protections to the back burner. Read More

Cow Sense: The Bush Administration's Broken Record on Mad Cow Disease 04/06/2006

The Bush administration has failed the public time and time again on mad cow disease, putting corporate special interests above the public interest.

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Weak Roof Crush Rule Threatens Victims' Rights 11/29/2005
Based in part on flawed cost-benefit analysis, a proposed rule to reduce injuries sustained when vehicles roll over and their roofs are crushed inward fails to require the level of safety available in current technology and threatens to eliminate the rights of roof crush victims to sue manufacturers. Read More

Administration Ignores Scientific Evidence and Pushes Forward with Mountaintop Removal 11/15/2005
A long-anticipated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the mountaintop mining waste disposal process ignores scientific evidence in order to validate the waste disposal method preferred by industry and the administration. Read More

White House Finds in Katrina Recovery 'Opportunity' to Waive Needed Protections 09/19/2005
Though most government agencies have worked diligently to alleviate the untold burdens on Hurricane Katrina's victims and to expedite recovery in a safe and effective manner, several agencies have taken the opportunity to waive needed protections, thus possibly putting recovery workers and others at greater risk. Read More

Homeland Security Waives Law for Border Fence Construction 09/19/2005
Apparently taking advantage of media focus on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it is exercising its newly acquired power to waive apparently all law in order to expedite construction of border fencing near San Diego. Read More

Bush Allows Governors to Challenge Roadless Rule 05/16/2005
In yet another attack on our nation's wildlife, the Forest Service published a final rule May 13 that will allow governors to petition for changes to state forest management plans, effectively undoing the Clinton-era forest regulations known as the "roadless rule." Read More

New Forestry Rules Endanger Wildlife, Limit Public Participation 01/10/2005
Three days before Christmas the U.S. Forest Service gave the timber and paper industry an early Christmas present, announcing a final rule that will drastically overhaul the U.S. Forest Service�s land management system. Read More

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