Senate Panel Faults Bush Efforts to Rewrite Clinton Environmental Regulations (washingtonpost.com)

Hostile to Clinton administration environmental regulations, the Bush White House largely shut out the public from commenting on its reworking of forestry and mining rules that had been years in the making, a Senate panel's Democratic staff says...

The report portrays the Bush administration as routinely dismissive of long-established regulatory procedures, public input and the scientific record behind the rules.

White House dismisses report as political.