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| Environment |
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| Topic:
Environment |
 The
Center for American Progress has launched this new database
project to chart conservatives' dishonesty – and compare
it with the truth. In this database, each conservative quote
will be matched against well-documented facts, so that users
can get a more accurate picture of the issues. |
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| Chainsaw
George-Bush Forest Fire Plan: Log It All |
| George
W. Bush, fresh off a brush clearing operation at his Crawford
ranch, snubbed the Earth Summit in Johannesburg for a trip to
Oregon, where he vowed to fight future forest fires by taking
a chainsaw to the nation's forests and the environmental laws
that protect them. |
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| Administration
confirming plans to open more forests to logging |
| The
Bush administration on Monday proposed a new plan to open up
national forests to more logging, confirming a draft plan published
two weeks ago. |
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| Friends
in the White House Come to Coal's Aid-By CHRISTOPHER DREW and
RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. |
| In
1997, as a top executive of a Utah mining company, David Lauriski
proposed a measure that could allow some operators to let coal-dust
levels rise substantially in mines. The plan went nowhere in
the government.Last
year, it found enthusiastic backing from one government official
- Mr. Lauriski himself. Now head of the Mine Safety and Health
Administration, he revived the proposal despite objections by
union officials and health experts that it could put miners
at greater risk of black-lung disease. |
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| Which
Energy Plan Do You Support?-August 09, 2004-By: Andrew Limburg |
Simply
looking at the currently energy plans that Bush and Kerry desire,
gives one an insight into the differences in the parties.
Both plans
have the goal of reducing America's dependency on foreign oil,
but a very different path on how to get there. |
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