I was reading The Guardian this evening, and found quite an enlightening article by Suzanne Goldenberg announcing that Barack Obama had changed back the Endangered Species Act to its previous form before the Bush era.
You may be like me, surprised that the Bush Administration had made any alterations to a bill protecting our country's rarest species from extinction, or perhaps you were instantly irritated by either George Bush's seeming indifference to public opinion or Barack Obama's fervor for changing things.
Reading further, I found that the Bush Administration had changed the bill so that government agencies alone had the authority to decide whether or not massive construction projects would be endangering any animal species.
Obama said that the process of preserving our nation's natural resources can be in harmony with economic development, and that the bill was "undermined" by prior administrations.
I am personally relieved that such a gross misconduct coming from an administration on the way out has been righted. In these coming days, we must not forget those intangible things within our environment that we will not be replenished of.
Here is a clip of Obama's announcement from the Washington Post:
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