Federal Judge Tosses Out Forest Rules

[Sequoia]

A federal judge on Friday tossed out new Bush administration rules that gave national forest managers more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews.


U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled that the government failed to adequately consider the effects the rules would have on the environment and neglected to properly gather public comment on the issue.


Hamilton said in her written decision that the government couldn't institute the new rules until proper environmental reviews were conducted, but she declined to specify how the nation's 155 national forests should be managed until then.


"I think people who love wildlife and care for our public forest should be elated by this decision," said Peter Frost, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, one of 15 environmental groups that brought a pair of lawsuits challenging the new rules.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/30/national/a160422D60.DTL

[rumpel]

1. Great News in an otherwise

depressing state of affairs in this country...

thanks
:)

[donco6]

2. Good news for once. Thanks. n/t

[glitch]

3. K & R for a stay of execution for the forests. Corruption never sleeps though

so we'll have to stay vigilant. K & R

[MasonJar]

4. Thank you, Judge Phyllis. The women are hanging stong lately.

[MethuenProgressive]

5. That judge is gonna get fired!!