The GW Bush White House Office of Management and Budget greatly expanded its power over governmental regulations and issued sweeping procedural changes to control how science is used by federal agencies.

The Bush administration created a new team that critics alleged was an attempt to maintain river flows that favor political interests in the lower section of the Missouri River Basin.

Officials at the FWS distorted an analysis of the economic benefits of protecting the bull trout.

The director of the U.S. FWS relied on a scientifically flawed report that lacked outside peer review and seriously misrepresented another study in determining that a population of trumpeter swans.

A wide array of scientists, government officials, and environmental groups has charged that the George W. Bush administration is engaged in a systematic attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act.

In June 2003, the White House sought to override EPA scientists' judgment on climate change.

In an incident involving the management of national forests, the George W. Bush administration created a "review team" made up of predominantly nonscientists.

Government-wide rule changes proposed by the White House or Congress could alter the way the federal government gathers and reviews scientific and technical information.

The National Nuclear Security Administration was summarily abolished in June 2003.

The EPA evaluated a proposal from Senators, but long withheld important results on the costs and benefits of the alternative bill from the senators.