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Tipping the Scalias of Justice
Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been ordered by lower courts to release documents related to his secretive energy task force meetings. In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Cheney — long-time friends — […]
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Gore Text
Gore Calls Bush a “Moral Coward” in Speech on Environment The Bush administration is “wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility, and mining companies,” said former Vice President Al Gore in a fiery address to a packed theater in New York City on Thursday. The speech — fourth in a series cosponsored by activist group […]
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Pesticidal
EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group Fourteen leading chemical companies have formed a task force that is meeting in secret with the U.S. EPA, attempting to weaken endangered species rules relating to pesticide use — so charges a lawsuit filed against the EPA on Thursday by a coalition of Seattle-based environmental groups. The […]
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Green Quixote
Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination Meanwhile, far from the madding crowds in Iowa, Green Party activists are fishing about for a standard-bearer of their own. Ralph Nader said no thanks; he’s planning to lose the 2004 presidential race as an Independent. But a potential front-runner has emerged in the person of David […]
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Babbitt, Hawken, and other enviros throw their weight behind Dean
We’ve spent much of our lives working for environmental change — for a response to global warming, for the preservation of biodiversity, for wild places, for family farms. But this winter, we’re working for Howard Dean for president — backing him in the confident hope that his victory will mean that the deep environmental principles […]
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Whitman highlights Republican rift on environment
Whitman has her say. On Monday, former U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman published an uncharacteristically opinionated commentary in the New York Times lamenting the Bush administration’s disregard for moderate Republican viewpoints. Though gently worded, the op-ed stands as the closest thing Whitman has made to a confession that she abandoned her post over an […]
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They’re Going to Pump You Up
Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean air and water regulations. The first is an appeal by oil companies and diesel manufacturers (supported by the Bush […]
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Hasta La Vista, Fishies
Schwarzenegger Cuts Moola for California Marine Reserves Plan In a boon for headline-writers who still haven’t exhausted their Terminator puns, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has put an indefinite hold on planning for a more than 1,000-mile-long necklace of no-fishing marine reserves along the California coast — mandated by a 1999 state law designed to […]
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An interview with Interior’s Lynn Scarlett, one of the architects of Bush’s “new environmentalism”
The people who make policy don’t always make headlines. The Bush administration boasts more than a few strong-minded, behind-the-scenes strategists with almost as much influence as cabinet members. Lynn Scarlett is one of them. As assistant secretary of the Department of Interior’s Office of Policy, Management, and Budget, Scarlett helps determine the budgets for all […]
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Interior Design
Interior’s Lynn Scarlett Defends Bush’s “New Environmentalism” When it comes to the environment, Lynn Scarlett may be the most influential Bush administration member you’ve never heard of. As an assistant secretary in the Interior Department, charged with analyzing rules and determining budgets throughout the agency, she has significant say over everything from mining to wildlife […]
