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A Bush administration rule change that aimed to streamline reviews under the Endangered Species Act and to eliminate any consideration of how a proposed project may contribute to climate change has been dropped.
The Bush Interior Department finalized the rule in December despite waves of protest from environmentalists and California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Besides barring Endangered Species Act (ESA) reviews from considering individual sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the rule would have authorized individual agencies to make ESA determinations on projects, thereby tossing out ...