Environmentalists slam Bush "fox-in-henhouse" plan

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081012/pl_nm/us_usa_wildlife

A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a henhouse.

The Interior Department, one of two federal agencies pushing for this policy change, rejects the environmentalists' critique, saying the new rule would cut bureaucratic red tape and free government scientists for more important work.

But a coalition of conservation groups sees the move as an attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act.

"This is exactly the fox guarding the henhouse," Michael Daulton of the National Audubon Society said. "It's a scary proposition to think about agencies with no wildlife expertise at all making decisions about the fate of species, potentially leading to extinction."

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1. Why is every Bush plan a "fox in the henhouse" plan?

It seems like everything that requires regulation is to be deregulated or self-regulated (which is the same thing when it's a corporation.)