Yesterday, a federal court delivered a win for conservationists when it overturned a Bush administration policy that would have opened Yellowstone National Park to unacceptable numbers of snowmobiles. Juliet Eilperin reports for The Washington Post:

The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will not enforce new requirements that would have made it more difficult for states to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). USA Today reports that the administration will not be taking "compliance action" at this time on regulations that would have forced states to wait until children are uninsured for one year before being covered by SCHIP and also require states to enroll 95 percent of extremely low-income children in the state before expanding health care coverage to only somewhat low-income families:

It's a bad week to be a forest-dweller. Yesterday, Reg•Watch blogged about the Bush administration's proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act that would make it easier for big development projects to move forward without due consideration to vulnerable species.

Last week, a group of EPA staffers wrote to administrator Stephen Johnson chiding him for the agency's recent decision to delay federal action on greenhouse gas emissions and the damaging climatic effects they cause. In July, EPA issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (a relatively minor step in the rulemaking process) that solicits public comment on various regulatory options for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.