Jeckyll and Hyde Bush on the environment--what's he up to now?

Let's polish up the old image before leaving office, but nonetheless, a good thing:


BUSH WILL CREATE 3 CONSERVATION ZONES IN PACIFIC OCEAN
Boston Globe, Jan. 6, 2009



WASHINGTON - President Bush will create three more marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean today, designating areas that will span 195,280 square miles and protect some of the most ecologically rich areas of the world's oceans, said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.

The decision to make the designations under the Antiquities Act, two weeks before Bush leaves office, means that he will have protected more square miles of ocean than any person in history. In 2006 Bush created the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, an area of 138,000 square miles.


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And, the Bush we know all to well:

BUSH'S ONE LAST BLOW TO THE ENVIRONMENT
---Derrick Jackson, Jan. 6, 2009


WHAT COULD POSSIBLY be left of the environment for the Bush administration to degrade on its way out the door? Leave it to the Forest Service not to see the forest or the trees.
The Washington Post this week reported that the administration plans to issue yet another "midnight" ruling. This one would let timber companies pave over national forest logging roads so pine tree woods can become residential subdivisions with names like "Pine Woods."


The ruling would most immediately benefit the nation's largest private landowner, 8-million-acre-owning Plum Creek Timber. The Forest Service, directed by former timber industry lobbyist Mark Rey, had long been working on a paving deal with Plum Creek behind closed doors. It has been held up by outraged local officials who were not consulted over the impact of development on resources and by environmentalists gravely concerned about wildlife endangerments.


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