Bush angers environmentalists with last-minute rule changes

Bush angers environmentalists with last-minute rule changes - Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington -- As the hour grows late, President Bush, like many chief executives before him, seems to hear the call of the wild.

Honoring a tradition that dates at least to the Reagan administration, Bush is pushing through a bundle of controversial last-minute changes in federal rules -- many of them involving the environment, national parks and public lands in the West.