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We urge Congress to reject the energy bill introduced by Senate Republicans last week that would permit exploratory oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 19-million-acre region is one of the last territories of unspoiled wilderness in the United States, a refuge ecosystem home to...
President George W. Bush has asserted that new technology will prevent the drilling from having a significant effect on the wildlife. We find it difficult to believe that large-scale industrial drilling in a pristine wilderness will be innocuous. More importantly, there is no pressing need to drill the refuge...
Afterward, Carmela finds Tony passed out on the floor (he's had another of his panic-attack blackouts) and he tells her the story. The way Chase handles the scene shows how this series is in a league above anything else on TV. On a network show - even in the...
I personally think that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not a good idea. There's no incentive for conservation right now. Now, I know Alaska very well and I know that they are desperate in Alaska for sources of taxes. That economy is heavily based on the...
Bush, of course, ran for office on just that principle. And while the Alaska refuge appears on the electoral radar more prominently than most environmental issues, Republicans know well the political reality that voters will do almost anything to avoid paying more for gas - except drive smaller cars.