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 Stories About: Alaska AND climate
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Mush, Mush
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17 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Mush, Mush In Alaska, some 4,000 miles from Capitol Hill, global warming is neither an abstraction nor up for debate. It's simply a reality -- and not, generally speaking, a pleasant one. High water is eating away houses and buildings, mosquitoes are invading where once they were unheard of, hunters are getting trapped on breakaway ice, permafrost is no longer permanent (meaning building foundations are slouching and buckling), and on the K ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics) |
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Joltin' Joe
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21 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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When Is a Caribou an Albatross?
The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military |
David Helvarg |
09 Mar 2001 |
Soapbox |
| California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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How Will the West Be Won?
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Ben White |
27 Mar 2000 |
Muckraker |
| In our last column, we promised to put the presidential campaign on the back burner and take a look at some of the key House and Senate races likely to decide control of the 107th Congress, as well some of the competitive gubernatorial contests. Instead of attempting to cover the entire country in one column (a feat exhausting for both reader and columnist), we will begin this week with the Pacific region and move on in subsequent columns thr ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, California, climate, Greenpeace, Hawaii, Muckraker, Oregon, politics, Washington (all these topics) |
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