AP President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.The White House announced Wednesday that Bush had signed the exemption Tuesday while traveling in the Middle East….
By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet The New York Times made it official. The Economy is a problem! So, now, at last we can discuss it. Not just discuss it, in rapid order “recession” became the word of the day, from White House, Congress, the Fed and the media. It’s blamed, mostly, on the subprime crisis. But…
By Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen, Washington Post  For years, the Bush administration has relied on an inadequate archiving system for storing the millions of e-mails sent through White House servers, despite court orders and statutes requiring the preservation of such records, according to documents and technical experts. President Bush’s White House early on scrapped…
By Simona Perry, t r u t h o u t On January 2, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency asking for an investigation into the decision-making process leading to denial of a Clean Air Act preemptive waiver to the State of…
