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...Bush faces a fight in Congress to open ANWR. One spill in Alaska could forever tar the Administration
...Such as drilling for oil and natural gas in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Though Bush added a typically combative wrinkle to that debate Thursday by tying $1.2 billion in funding for alternative and renewable energy sources to royalties from ANWR drilling, congressional handicappers still say Alaska drilling is a non-starter. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert telegraphed as much Wednesday when he said the Bush would have to make a "much better case" than they have been...
...Democrats' long-term plan, it sounds like it has more in common with Bush's than one might expect, starting with increasing oil production in areas that have already been roped off to exploration and building more pipelines to move natural gas from Alaska to the rest of the country. (This overlap may have something to do with the fact that labor unions are quickly cozying up to the Bush Administration's more-everything energy policy as a potential job gusher...
...logging on about 60 million acres of national forest. The catch: he will give local authorities the power to bend these rules on a case-by-case basis, effectively negating the rules before putting them in place. Most of the land in question is in the West, including Alaska's Tongass, which has the most pending permits for logging...
...Currently, voters in Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have approved the use of medical marijuana. Where does this leave those states in terms of law enforcement...