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Environmentalists Take Issue With Interior Department's List of Achievements

 
As President Bush's tenure comes to a close, independent experts and administration insiders are delivering their assessments of his government's performance over the past eight years. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has posted his own verdict on his department's Web site, and the upshot is, h... (link)

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