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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2002

Former Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt is sounding like his successor these days as he pushes for a controversial 3,000-acre home development in southern California.

Hired by Washington Mutual, the nation's largest savings and loan association, Babbitt is promoting the project to bring more than 3,000 housing units to suburban Los Angeles. He says the development shows how private companies can work to protect endangered species and the environment.

Critics don't see it that way. "Bruce Babbitt still sees green," activist Chad Griffin told The New York Times. "It's just a different shade of green than he saw as interior secretary."

Babbitt works for the Washington, D.C., law and lobbying firm of Latham & Watkins.

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