Word: rejections
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...Whitman, declared last week that it will proceed with plans to cut diesel exhaust from big trucks and buses by 95 percent. This proposal maintains a major Clinton administration rule that environmentalists worried Bush would try to weaken; the announcement dovetailed nicely with the Supreme Court's decision to reject big industry's attack on the Clean...
...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 hundreds of plant and animal species. Birds from across North America depend on the refuge as a vital migration area, as do caribou herds on which a number of native Alaskan communities rely. There is no reason to threaten this wilderness when we should be working towards energy conservation and efficiency...
...their part, the Supreme Court Justices were not interested in offering comment - they simply dismissed the challenge without writing an opinion or a dissent. That kind of dismissal means the Justices did not reject the case because it lacked merit, but rather because they wanted to defer to the lower court's ruling...
...Given the political firestorm that would undoubtedly follow such a decision, Evans was reportedly approaching this announcement with some trepidation. Thursday, the Census Bureau made Evans' life a whole lot easier, advising the secretary in no uncertain terms to reject any revised numbers. There is no evidence, the bureau's director told Evans, that adjusted figures would be any more accurate than the original numbers. Evans' final verdict, his aides insist, is not set in stone - and until it is, civil rights leaders and Democrats will pepper his office with statements opposing the bureau's recommendation...
...Sometimes there is negotiation with a professor. It is very unusual to simply reject a proposal," said Andrew D. Gordon, professor of history and chair of the Historical Studies subcommittee...