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Environmentalists Slam Bush 'Fox-in-Henhouse' Plan

This undated photo provided by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department shows a New Mexican meadow jumping mouse at a marsh near Espanola, N.M. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse is among 13 species listed in petitions filed by WildEarth Guardians on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The conservation group is seeking protections for the species under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Joan L. Morrison)

WASHINGTON - A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a henhouse.

The Interior Department, one of two federal agencies pushing for this policy change, rejects the environmentalists' critique, saying the new rule would cut bureaucratic red tape and free government scientists for more important work.

But a coalition of conservation groups sees the move as an attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act.