"When Barack Obama took over the White House from George W. Bush, environmental activists breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Under Bush and vice president Dick Cheney, resource extraction – logging, mining, drilling for oil and gas – as often as not were favored over protection of habitat and endangered species. So was carbon-emitting energy production over conservation and “green” renewable energy. ...

But recently, Obama and his administration have been taking flak from the left on the environment."

Brad Knickerbocker reports for the Christian Science Monitor July 25, 2010. [2]