Share this Post:

Print this page

Email this page

Babbitt Calls Out Obama on Wilderness

Facebook

Twitter

RSS

YouTube

SIGN-UP for our latest news and action alerts:

Regular Blog Features:

Scope of Science:

Understanding environmental issues with science

Blog Categories:

Facebook Fans

Related Blog Entries

by Ted Zukoski:

Notes From Under The Bus

Since the GOP won a majority in the House in 2010, the Obama administration has gone into "go-slow" mode - or even has taken a U-turn on pre...

by Ted Zukoski:

Uranium Industry Attack on Grand Canyon

At the beginning of the last century, Ralph H. Cameron was a booster of the Grand Canyon. He wanted to promote – and cash in on - the Canyon as...

by Ted Zukoski:

Obama Filling The West’s Stocking With Coal

As fall turns to winter, President Obama has continued his virtually unbroken streak of bending over backwards for the coal industry in the West. ...

Earthjustice on Twitter

Follow @Earthjustice

08 June 2011, 1:21 PM

Ted Zukoski

Babbitt Calls Out Obama on Wilderness

Says Obama, Congress not doing enough for wildlands

Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt

Bruce Babbitt, Bill Clinton's Interior Secretary for eight years, gave a speech attacking the current GOP Congress for its anti-environmental jihad. That's not news.

But he also told the Obama administration it wasn't doing enough to protect western wildlands, and laid out a blueprint for positive steps the president could take to be an environmental champion. That's news. And it's welcome news.

Obama did take one great step for wilderness in signing an omnibus wilderness bill way back in March of 2009, in his first few months in office. Interior, however, has recently flip-flopped on wilderness policy at the Bureau of Land Management. Babbitt's critique is well-deserved, and his call to action is one the president should heed.

Here's hoping someone in the current administration is listening.