Word: interior
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...didn't the Secretary of the Interior go to Alaska soon after the spill to see the scope of the disaster with his own eyes? Three weeks before the spill, an Environmental Protection Agency report criticized oil companies' "careless management of chemical and oil wastes on Alaska's North Slope." The lack of a coherent plan to deal with such crises has given new meaning to the phrase, "from sea to shining...
...symbol of American enterprise at its worst, Al Capone has a place in history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
...Refuge (ANWR). Oil companies suspect that this 19 million-acre preserve, lying between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea on the North Slope, just east of Prudhoe Bay, may contain some 9 billion bbl. of oil, and they are eager to drill there. President Bush and the U.S. Interior Department favor opening up the area to exploration and development. Unlike Bristol Bay, where powerful fishing interests have always fought drilling, the land adjacent to this preserve is home only to a handful of Inupiat. Alaskan politicians thus have had little to lose and much to gain by pushing...
...Washington the feeling is much the same. Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan told oil-industry representatives last week that they had suddenly acquired a serious image problem, and EPA chief Reilly asserted that "we will not move forward if we have any significant concerns that have not been resolved." Anti-drilling lobbyists are increasingly hopeful. Says Sierra Club conservation director Douglas Scott: "This is much bigger than syringes on the shores of New Jersey. It's an important political event...
...closing a chapter in our history and opening another one," said Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak. Solidarity leader Walesa, who co-signed the pact with Kiszczak, went further: "I think this may be the beginning of democracy in Poland." But if that prophecy is to come true, Poland must reverse its disastrous economic decline, and the accord is weakest in its economic provisions. It includes only limited measures to advance productivity and a highly risky plan to index workers' wages. The Bush Administration is thinking of rewarding Poland for its moves toward liberalization by extending new credits, the first since martial...