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...victory" headlines. "Bush?s Energy Bill Is Passed In House In A GOP Triumph - Environmentalists Lose," moaned the New York Times. "Bush?s Energy Plan Endorsed By House," said the Washington Post. The L.A. Times went straight to the hot button: "House Votes To Allow Oil Drilling in Alaska...
...much did he actually win? By the time the House GOP leadership drummed up the 240 votes to pass its energy bill after midnight Wednesday, the 1.5 million-acre swath of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge Bush had earmarked for exploration had been shrunk by compromise to 2,000 acres - and backers had to stroke the labor unions (salivating over construction jobs in the tundra) to get that...
...epic Battle for the West that has raged for two centuries. The Bush Administration is pushing hard to open up large tracts of public land to drilling, logging, nuclear-waste storage and off-road vehicles. Whether it means exploring for oil in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, easing up on Clinton Administration road closings that put a third of the national forests off limits to logging or suspending new listings on the Endangered Species Act, the message from the White House is clear: the West is open for business. "I believe people should make decisions about their...
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...Reid faces an uphill battle. "Nobody wants the waste," explains Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski, the senior Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The 31 states that have nuclear power plants are not about to stand with Nevada--who wants radioactive garbage piling up in their backyard? Even some Nevada politicians realize that. "I can read the writing on the wall," says Nevada state senator Bill O'Donnell. "We're going to get the waste." O'Donnell believes Reid should negotiate with the Administration now so that Nevada would get something from the deal, such as a railroad through...