Former Interior secretary criticizes Obama on the environment

Los Angeles Times : Yesterday Bruce Babbitt, former secretary of the Department of the Interior, charged that President Obama has failed to answer “forcefully and persuasively” Republican attacks on environmental safeguards, writes Neela Banerjee for the Los Angeles Times. According to an Interior Department spokesperson, Obama instituted a conservation plan more ambitious than those of his recent predecessors. Since the midterm elections, however, the Obama administration has delayed or weakened several regulations opposed by congressional Republicans and business lobbyists. Babbitt urged the president to reject all future environmental riders and to restore land and waterways by using executive authority to create more parks and wilderness areas.