Obama Freezes Bush’s Late-Term Executive Orders
Articles — By forcechange on January 23, 2009 8:28 am
Eoin O’Carroll at Bright Green Blog has a good outline of Obama’s attempts to freeze some of Bush’s late-term executive orders:
Among the rules that [Obama has] frozen is one that would have made it easier for factories and refineries to expand without applying for new federal pollution permits. Another would have removed federal protection for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes. Another would have opened areas of Oregon to logging. Another would have opened 2 million acres of public land in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah for oil-shale drilling. And another would have helped set in motion the commercialization of meat from genetically modified animals.
As for Bush orders that have already taken effect, for recent ones Obama could use the Congressional Review Act of 1996. Under this law, any executive orders Bush issued within that 60 day period can be undone by the now democratic Congress.
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