Why have Florida's Everglades National Park been taken off a U.N. list of World Heritage sites considered "in danger?"
Politics.
The Bush Administration, embarassed by the inclusion on the list (the only one in the United States, but don't worry, with their ignoring global warming, I'm sure we'll have plenty to add to the list, soon,) had Todd Willens, a deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department, persuade the World Heritage Committee at a July meeting in New Zealand to take the Everglades off the list, despite recommendations to the contrary by the National Park Service and the committee's science advisers. Smells of Karl Rove to me.
Is the list of politicized departments doing "the people's business" endless.
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