Obama On The Environment

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Obama is treating the environment with the respect it deserves. This respect was absent from the Bush administration which worked relentlessly to allow corporations to strip away the habitat.

McClatchy: Environmentalists happy with Obama; industry less so

During the past 120 days, the Obama administration has put on hold or reversed Bush administration plans for oil and gas drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf and for the northern spotted owl, endangered Pacific salmon and mountaintop mining in the Appalachians. It's signed a bill protecting 2 million acres of wilderness, moved to bolster the budgets of the major federal lands agencies, appointed scientists to top policy posts and provided another $55 million to speed the largest dam removal in U.S. history on Washington state's Elwha River.