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...TOGETHER AT LAST. The photo on his office wall is a testimonial to Hoffa's willingness to join with anyone to protect his 1.4 million members. He will make that point again this week when he works with the turtle's archenemies to push for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which he hopes will create jobs. "We have no permanent friends," Hoffa says, using a well-worn phrase, "only permanent interests...
...rapid warming that they are likely to vanish altogether in another 15 years. And if that happens, Thompson realized, then all that will remain of Kilimanjaro's crowning white glory will be whatever fragments he and his colleagues managed to bring back to Ohio State and stash in their Arctic-cold freezer...
...House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month largely on the promise of an important number. To win moderates in their party, Republicans added an amendment limiting drilling to just 2,000 of the park's 1.5 million acres. But it turns out those 2,000 acres don't have to be contiguous, and only the area of the equipment touching the ground is counted. Since each drilling platform takes up as little as 10 acres, the limit would allow oil companies to spread out over practically the entire park. Another key number...
Congress loves to play fast and loose with numbers, particularly when one side or the other is using them to justify a bill. Two such cases came earlier this month, when the House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are a total of 19 million acres in the refuge, and in 1980 Congress set aside 1.5 million of them along a strip of the refuge's northern Arctic Ocean coast for possible oil exploration. Oil companies and Alaska's congressional delegation have been anxious ever since to start drilling there. The oil companies believe...
...drill Detroit, not the Arctic" campaign will find some support this week when the National Academy of Sciences releases a long-awaited study. The report, toned down after the auto industry protested that raising fuel-efficiency standards, by making cars lighter, makes vehicles less safe, is still likely to conclude that fuel efficiency can be increased at least 25% with existing technology...