"Scientists Take Complaints About Interference to Hill"

Canada Lynx
One of the species
endangered in US
by the Bush admin. rules

Source: Elizabeth Williamson, The Washington Post, January 16, 2008.

I quote:

Two dozen scientists swarmed over Capitol Hill this week mad as vespinae ( hornets) at what they say is Bush administration meddling in environmental science.

Organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Endangered Species Coalition, the rumpled researchers won time in the offices of more than 20 lawmakers. They are protesting what Francesca Grifo, director of the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, calls "the systematic dismantling of the Endangered Species Act through the manipulation and suppression of science."

Comment: Certainly now that we have a Democratic Congress, it is time for the Congressional checks to the Republican administration's cavalier approach to environmental laws to be applied, as the Constitution requires. JAD