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Bush’s Last Assault; What the outgoing administration still has planned for our wild lands

Grand Canyon National Park at risk to Uranium mining, Arizona. Photo Courtesy National Park Service.

Throughout the past eight years, the Bush administration has treated our country’s wild lands as if they belong to industry. Through a series of short-cut measures and regulations that have cut science and the public out of decision making, the administration has consistently rolled back environmental protections and sharply favored industrial use and exploitation of our wild lands above all other public concerns. And they’re not done yet. Read more