This article in the New York Times about removing senior official from the Endangered Species Office is an example of the Bush administration's approach to environmental issues. That is, to supress science and facts in order to allow political pressures to dominate the creation of environmental policy. We have seen it in their approach to weakening the Clean Air Act, revoking the Roadless Rule in National Forests, and now what looks like the first move in weakening the Endangered Species Act. The Endangered Species Act is a favorite shibboleth of the anti-environmental right and business interests. They have long wanted it weakened to the point of being irrelevant. This action could be the first step in the attack.