Only a few, but you get the picture
http://thinkprogress.org/interior-scandals-under-bushJust a few of the issues during the BushCo years:
http://www.peer.org/federal/federal_info.php?row_id=10snip
June 23, 2008 FEDERAL WILDLIFE REPORT CENSORED — Highly Redacted Inspector General Report Posted on Official Website
May 20, 2008 FIGHT TO RE-CLASSIFY PYGMY OWL AS ENDANGERED — Conservationists Take First Step to Re-establish Protections for the Pygmy Owl
March 18, 2008 FEDERAL WILDLIFE SCIENTISTS CAUGHT IN ETHICS TUG-OF-WAR — Conflicting Orders Make Politically Sensitive Scientific Work a Career Minefield
February 26, 2008 LEGAL PETITION TO SAVE NEVADA’S AMARGOSA TOAD — Off-Road Traffic and Habitat Destruction May Doom Toad without Intervention
January 22, 2008 LAWSUIT TO FORCE FLORIDA MANATEE OVERSIGHT RECORD RELEASE — Boating Speed Limits, Warning Signs and Swim-With Harassment at Issue
May 3, 2007 BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO PROTECT RARE SAND MOUNTAIN BLUE BUTTERFLY —
April 9, 2007 MANATEE PROTECTIONS TO BE CUT UNDER BUSH PLAN — Down-Listing Comes Despite Record Number of Manatee Fatalities in 2006
February 20, 2007 FEDERAL WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT IS LEADERLESS AND IN DECLINE — New Inspector General Decries “Rudderless” Program as Prosecutions Drop
December 20, 2006 AGENCY RESISTANCE THREATENS TO WIPE OUT DESERT FISH — State Push for Nonnative Game Fish Undercuts Federal Recovery Plans
December 13, 2006 GROUPS CONTEST DENIAL OF FEDERAL PROTECTION TO DECLINING PRAIRIE DOG — Illegal Political Interference Cited in Lawsuit
November 1, 2006 NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM PUT ON STARVATION DIET — Scores of Vacant Refuges to Be Left With No Staff on “Preservation Status”
August 18, 2006 BUSH ADMINISTRATION DENIES PROTECTION TO 16 DESERT SPECIES — Off-Road Pressure Leads to Reversal of Science on Unique Sonoran Wildlife
August 14, 2006 DESERT PRESERVATION LAWSUIT FILED — Agency Staff, Rural Residents and Conservation Groups Challenge Off-Road Vehicle Abuse
June 5, 2006 SAN MIGUEL COUNTY JOINS COALITION SEEKING GUNNISON SAGE-GROUSE PROTECTION —
April 5, 2006 SUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL AGRICULTURE ON PRIME HOOK WILDLIFE REFUGE — Top Bush Official Overrode Delaware Refuge Ecological Objections to GE Crops
February 1, 2006 INTERIOR OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE FOR SCIENTIFIC FRAUD PROMOTED — Agency Admitted Bad Science on Florida Panther and Reinstated Whistleblower
November 7, 2005 WILDLIFE REFUGE USED FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS — Farmers Given Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge Land
September 15, 2005 GREEN GROUPS OPPOSE BUSH PICK FOR FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE — Illegal Orders, Altering Scientific Findings and Developer-Friendly Pattern Cited
July 20, 2005 “DISINFORMATION SYNDROME” AFFLICTS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — Officials Routinely Rewarded for Lying and Punished for Telling the Truth
June 29, 2005 JOINT STATEMENT OF ANDREW ELLER AND THE U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE —
May 24, 2005 BIOLOGISTS ORDERED TO IGNORE GENETICS OF ENDANGERED SPECIES — New Fish & Wildlife Service Edict Sparks Internal Protests Over Censoring Science
April 28, 2005 STRONG WARNINGS ON SW FLORIDA DEVELOPMENT IGNORED — Fish &Wildlife Service Objections to Lee and Collier County Projects Muzzled
March 30, 2005 FLORIDA FWS BIOLOGISTS ORDERED TO APPROVE ALL DEVELOPMENT — Panther Called a “Zoo Species”— Protecting Wild Habitat Futile
March 21, 2005 AGENCY ADMITS PANTHER WHISTLEBLOWER WAS RIGHT — Fish & Wildlife Service Persists in Trying to Fire Vindicated Scientist
February 22, 2005 U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE MAY OUTSOURCE BIOLOGICAL STAFF — Director Appeals to Interior to Stop the Contractor Bidding for Hundreds of Jobs
February 10, 2005 FISH & WILDLIFE SCIENCE POLLUTED BY FLORIDA POLITICS — Survey Validates Concerns Raised by Panther Whistleblower
February 9, 2005 POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE AT U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE — Survey Reveals Inappropriate Orders to Alter Scientific Findings, Decisions
February 7, 2005 SCIENTISTS ORDERED NOT TO COMPLETE SURVEY — Banned Survey Results to be Released Wednesday
November 8, 2004 FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE FIRES PANTHER WHISTLEBLOWER — Agency Does Not Dispute Orders to Suppress Scientific Findings
October 11, 2004 OUTSPOKEN PANTHER SCIENTIST APPEARS WITH NOBEL PRIZEWINNER — Joint Appearance to Speak Out Against Political Pressure on Government Scientists
October 5, 2004 MORE GILA FISH NEED FEDERAL PROTECTION — Ignoring Unlisted Fish Is Recipe for Further Decline
August 24, 2004 FEDERAL COURT VINDICATES PANTHER WHISTLEBLOWER — U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Lacks Scientific Basis for
August 4, 2004 COURT FINES BUSH ADMINISTRATION DESERT SPECIES PERMITS ILLEGAL — Landmark decision finds U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service used illegal definition
July 29, 2004 PANTHER SCIENTISTS PRESSURED TO APPROVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS — Scientific Fraud Charges Go to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Director
July 20, 2004 U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE MOVES TO FIRE SCIENTIST WHO REPORTED FRAUD — Agency Acknowledges Flaws in Florida Panther Studies Affecting Major Developments
May 5, 2004 U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE INDOCTRINATION PROCLAIMS ITS — All Staff Required to Watch Video and
May 4, 2004 U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST CHARGES SCIENTIFIC FRAUD — Florida Panther Habitat and Population Data Skewed to Allow Development
April 13, 2004 FISH & WILDLIFE DIRECTOR OVERRULES HIS OWN SCIENTIFIC PANEL — Allows Continued Hunting of Rare Trumpeter Swans
March 4, 2004 ADMINISTRATION NEGOTIATES CEDING WILDLIFE REFUGE TO STATE — Kirwin Refuge in Kansas May Be First in a Wave; Groups Protest
May 28, 2003 TRUMPETER SWAN DATA UNDER FIRE FWS — Finding Relied on Invented and Distorted Studies
December 16, 2002 GROUPS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO DISCOUNT SWAN SURVEY RESULTS — Ongoing Legal Challenge
August 16, 2001 FISH & WILDLIFE OK'S HUNTING SEASON FOR RARE TRUMPETER SWAN FWS — Scientists Cry
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