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Tongues Out at Tongass Plan
In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post, Alaska’s congressional delegation — staunch and powerful defenders of the state’s timber industry — criticize the Clinton administration’s latest plan for managing Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R), Sen. Ted Stevens (R), and Rep. Don Young (R) say political appointees without appropriate experience overturned a plan […]
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Fumenting Conservative Backlash
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Fumento, a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, mocks environmentalists for their “blame-man-first mentality,” which he says leads them to assume that problems like frog deformities, temperature swings, and rising asthma rates can be attributed to environmental degradation.
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Pork on Rye, Hold the Sprawl
This year could see Congress approve the most conservation spending ever, some officials are predicting. Republicans and Democrats alike have introduced six major environmental conservation bills in Congress this year, all of which would for the first time fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund with $900 million a year. Money from the fund […]
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Sleazy Riders
A number of senators have tacked anti-environmental riders onto an emergency spending bill that would fund NATO’s air war in Yugoslavia and send relief money to hurricane-stricken Central America. House leaders are unhappy with the Senate add-ons and are likely to try to strip them during conference committee this week, and the White House has […]
