GAO blames govt. for logging losses
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A government study blamed the Bush administration, not lawsuits by environmentalists, for adding to the cost of a logging project in which the government spent $11 million to salvage less than $9 million in timber from a wildfire.
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Illegal local government construction destroying China's forests   BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) has blasted local authorities and private companies for flaunting the law by chopping down forests to make way for new transport links.
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&quot;It does not look good. I&#39;m not predicting a disaster or anything like that, but it would be really miraculous if we didn&#39;t have some impacts,&quot; Department of Natural Resources
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has ordered a renewed crackdown on illegal logging, as the toll from a series of flash floods and landslides spawned by a tropical storm left hits almost 500 people dead or missing.
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By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--The Bush administration Tuesday moved to drop safeguards from  1.6 million acres of public forest seen as critical habitat for the northern  spotted owl, making it easier for federal agencies to proceed with logging  there.
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The government's record on delivering renewable energy is under attack.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is wasting tens of millions on prescription drugs and its billion-dollar annual investment in native education is actually losing ground, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush took his critics to task yesterday for using the poor marks the Iraqi government received on a progress report this week as reason to argue that the war is lost.
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By DAN EGAN  The federal government has spent more than $100 million in the last five years in its fight to stop the tree-eating emerald ash borer.
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An area of Amazon jungle larger than the U.S. state of New Jersey has been destroyed this year and work on a new highway is mainly to blame, environmental group Friends of the Earth and the government said on Wednesday.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - An Oregon timber company has appealed the reinstatement of protections on 58.5 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, saying it should be able to continue logging trees burned in a 2002 wildfire in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
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Hit with tough criticism that he had misled Congress, David M. Walker , the head of the Government Accountability Office, yesterday said he regretted that he had not done a better job of explaining and keeping lawmakers up to speed on the agency's new pay system.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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Congress and the Interior Department investigate whether the Bush administration undermined federal protections.
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The agency has come under criticism for its disaster relief program as well as its operating, lending and contracting practices.
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The largest U.S. wind power company said it was hit by losses from trading in energy markets.
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By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 10--Last year's failed plan by the Bush administration to sell more  than 7,000 acres of national forest land in Georgia and Tennessee is back --  penciled into the president's proposed 2008 budget.   Under the plan, the U.S.