Obama asks court to block forest road building

[Robb]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it will defend a 2001 rule imposed by President Bill Clinton that blocked road construction and other development on tens of millions of acres of remote national forests.

The administration's decision was contained in court papers filed Thursday in a case in Wyoming that could help settle the fate of remote federal forests. The administration is siding with environmentalists in the case.

Conflicting court opinions have variously upheld and blocked the so-called Roadless Rule, which prohibited commercial logging, mining and other development on about 58 million acres of national forest in 38 states and Puerto Rico. A subsequent Bush administration rule had cleared the way for more commercial activity there.

A spokesman for the Justice Department said the appeal notice, filed in U.S. District Court in Wyoming, meets a Friday deadline to preserve the government's right to pursue the appeal.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6rl81Efi_0P-RKk4s6Z7s6As6XQD9A28VV84

[BlooInBloo]

1. I know that's a lie, because DUers say Obama is depopulating all the world's forests.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Beat me to it.....

me quick...not.

[Infinite Hope]

19. What's that about? n/t

[tabasco]

3. The Ninth Circuit just threw out Bush's illegal rule

and the panel consisted entirely of republican-appointed judges.

[winyanstaz]

4. ok well this is a good thing..thank you President Obama...

This is more like it and what we need more of. Time to roll back all those Bush laws..cause they all suck!

[LaPera]

7. It means nothing unless the Obama administration pursues it to the end to stop

any further destruction in the future...obviously Bill Clinton tried in 2001 before he left office and the republicans just came in and tried to overturn it (this and every other good thing that was done, if the corporations wanted it).

[winyanstaz]

15. true...I have to agree with you on that point

[Robb]

16. To be fair

Clinton tried on his way out, and didn't have to follow through. This is a much harder job eight years later.

[Grinchie]

5. Nice, but too little, too late.

Kind of flies in the face of Clearcutting in the Tongass Obama administration clear-cutting Tongass National Forest with taxpayer money : Monday July 27, (2009) 6:43 PM

or maybe this Boot to the Face

Monsanto's Michael Taylor is BAAAAACC...KKK ... this time to control "Food Safety" from the White House

Right DLC. You are doing so much good, thanks you for rescinding one of Bush's mandates. How about you throw him in Jail along with Cheney while your at it, unless of course you want to play with the power he granted to you guys for a while.

Keep opining about all this "Great Stuff" DLC supplicants, but it isn't gonna fly. Health Care Reform is your Waterloo, and if you can't craft a message that outperforms the message of paid lobbiests, it's most likely because you still Hire lobbiest's to craft your own message, which is damaged from within.

[Robb]

8. Your last sentence is like beat poetry. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. lobbiest's?

How long are you people going to keep humiliating yourselves?

[Grinchie]

14. As long as it takes for people to see the Corporate takeover of the Democratic party.

DLC lapdogs, all of them.

[sofa king]

6. Well, it's a start.

I was kind of hoping President Obama would throw us all a bone by reinstating all of the "midnight regulations" left behind by President Clinton and then immediately revoked by the hoods.

But, to be fair to the sitting President, eight years of dirty water under the bridge probably requires considerable regulatory review and all that other hoo-ha, rather than a single slash of the pen. We're in a much different world today than we were in the good old days.

[kpete]

9. Obama asks court to block forest road building

Source: Salon

Obama asks court to block forest road building
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press Writer


Aug 13th, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says it will defend a 2001 rule imposed by President Bill Clinton that blocked road construction and other development on tens of millions of acres of remote national forests.

The administration's decision was contained in court papers filed Thursday in a case in Wyoming that could help settle the fate of remote federal forests. The administration is siding with environmentalists in the case.

Conflicting court opinions have variously upheld and blocked the so-called Roadless Rule, which prohibited commercial logging, mining and other development on about 58 million acres of national forest in 38 states and Puerto Rico. A subsequent Bush administration rule had cleared the way for more commercial activity there.

A spokesman for the Justice Department said the appeal notice, filed in U.S. District Court in Wyoming, meets a Friday deadline to preserve the government's right to pursue the appeal.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2009/08/13/D9A27JA80_us_roadless_forests/

[Cant trust em]

10. I don't buy it. Obama hates the environment.

I saw him slap a spotted owl.

[silverweb]

11. Excellent!

GObama!

[rosesaylavee]

12. Yay! Good news!

I needed to see something good today. And this is it. Huzzah!

[Odin2005]

17. The Obama-haters are already being incoherent, I see.

[snooper2]

18. yep, I do believe some of them are still bitter...

nt

[SpartanDem]

20. K&R