President Barack Obama has put the brakes on all new and pending rules hustled through by former President George Bush. In a memo from Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Obama directed that “…no proposed or final regulation should be sent to the Office of Federal Register for publication unless and until it has been reviewed and approved by a department or agency head appointed or designated by the President after noon on Jan. 20, 2009.”

Grey wolves across America are howling in relief at the decisive move, which may delay or prevent their being removed from endangered species lists in more than a dozen states. We hopped over to ProPublica's handy list of Bush's midnight regulations to see what else was now up for closer examination. Bush's hit-and-run maneuvers (many of them last minute) weakened or outright attacked a number of environmental and energy issues, including changes to:

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