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Senators Say BP's Alaska Problems Doom ANWR Chances
Republican senators said today controversy over BP's
management of its Alaskan oil pipelines undermines
their effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge to exploration.
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Congress Daily
Article
Time to Retire Plan
to Drill in Polar Refuge
Give it a rest. How
many times and ways can some members of Congress push
the proposal to allow drilling in ANWR?
Read
the Nashua Telegraph Editorial
Hands off ANWR (Los Angeles Times Editorial)
The
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is too precious to
succumb to GOP bullying.
President Should Forget Arctic Refuge, Focus on
Fuel Efficiency and New Fuels
President Bush's
four-part plan to reduce energy prices takes several
steps in the right direction, but the White House's
continued
Read
the NewsBlaze Editorial
New Gasoline Study Shows Profits, Not Crude Oil Prices Or Ethanol, Are Driving Pump Price Spike
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights released
a study today of rising gasoline prices in California that found corporate markups and
profiteering are responsible for spring price spikes, not rising crude costs or the national switchover to higher-cost ethanol, as the oil industry claims.
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the Press Release
Another Gimmick,
Another ANWR Vote
Here we
go again. The U.S. Senate voted 51-49 to allow
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as
part of the 2007 federal budget. Both the mechanism
and policy are deeply flawed.
Read
the Seattle Times Editorial
Arctic wildlife refuge not out of the woods
Here's the drill:
Republican leaders push legislation to give Big Oil
companies access to the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. Democrats and moderate Republicans defeat the
legislation. It's a political battle that has been
fought and fought again for five years.
Read
the article in The Republican
Spill spoils argument
One argument in
behalf of drilling for oil in the Arctic Na tional
Wildlife Refuge is that it can be done without
damaging the pristine nature of this world-class
nature preserve.
Read
the Patriot-News
Editorial
Why is the Bush administration bent on reviving the scheme to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
Less than a week after warning in his State of the Union address that our nation is "addicted to oil," President Bush offered the country a proposal to -- of all things -- drill for more oil.
Read
the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Editorial
First lease sale could net $7B
The first oil lease sales in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could bring in $7 billion -- nearly triple the estimate of a year ago -- the Bush administration said yesterday in asking Congress once again to pass legislation opening up the controversial area to oil and gas exploration.
Read
the E&E Daily Article
Admit That ANWR Fight is Over
A
few die-hard Republicans are not giving up on despoiling the
treasured Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Most Democrats
and several Republicans have always opposed oil drilling
there on environmental grounds. In recent years, many other
Republicans, fearing a backlash at the polls, also have come
to oppose it.
Read
the Las Vegas Sun Editorial
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