Follow up to related postings on “midnight regulations,” this news release and report: “In 2001, the Bush administration began its radical, anti-environmental agenda by rescinding, changing, or issuing rules that degraded America’s environment. From refusing to reduce the arsenic levels in drinking water, to opening wilderness areas to new roads, to rejecting the Kyoto Protocol after promising to cut emissions, early actions merely presaged later damaging activities on global warming, clean air laws, and myriad other environmental and energy issues.”

“The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has prepared the following report on what administrative actions the Bush administration could take in the final days of its second term”: Past is Prologue: For Energy and the Environment, the Bush Administration’s Last 100 Days Could Rival the First 100, A Majority Staff Report.