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Throwing Their Wait Around		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Throwing Their Wait Around Senate Democrats announced yesterday that they would not consider new energy legislation until next year, angering Republicans who had hoped to quickly finalize a plan favored by the Bush administration. The Bush plan, which would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and provide about $30 billion in tax breaks and subsidies to the oil, coal, gas, and nuclear industri ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Put This in Your Pipeline and Smoke It Domestic oil and gas is not the ticket to U.S. energy security	Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins	20 Nov 2001	Soapbox
America's fragile domestic infrastructure threatens her energy security at least as much as dependence on oil from the Middle East. Replacing oil from that region with even more vulnerable domestic systems would therefore decrease energy security. Stranger than science fiction. Extraordinarily concentrated energy flows invite and reward devastatin ...
Topics: Alaska, Amory Lovins, business, energy, Middle East, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Polar Opposition		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Polar Opposition Last month, the leader of an Eskimo village in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service claiming that the Alaska Wilderness League, which works to prevent oil drilling in the refuge, misrepresented itself to obtain nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax status. The complaint alleges that the ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Internal Revenue Service (all these topics)

Murky Outcome		24 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Murky Outcome In a decision that could have serious implications for the environment, U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced this week that he will run for governor of his home state next year. Murkowski, a former banker, has been a senator for 21 years and is the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He has made enemies of environmentalists, especially through his t ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Parknost		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Parknost Dormant plans for an international park spanning the Bering Strait have been revived, thanks to a gung-ho new governor in the Russian Far East. Under the last governor of Chukotka, western tourists and researchers got the cold shoulder, but Gov. Roman Abramovich is welcoming joint programs with Alaska, including research, conservation, tourism, and economic ventures. U.S. National Park Service reps plan to discuss t ...
Topics: Alaska, national parks, Russia (all these topics)

Foulbanks, Alaska		09 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Foulbanks, Alaska More than 100 workers are busily cleaning up a 285,600-gallon oil spill outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, that began Thursday when a man fired a .338 caliber rifle at the trans-Alaskan pipeline. About a third of the spilled oil has been recovered, but a representative of the company managing the cleanup said it would be years before the area is free of contamination. Although the pipeline -- which carries ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Not Sitting on Defense		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Not Sitting on Defense The U.S. Senate yesterday voted 99-0 to approve a $345 billion anti-terrorism defense bill, after voting 100-0 not to get sidetracked by amendments like one that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) had proposed to add the entire GOP energy bill to the defense bill, but even he in effect voted again ...
Topics: Alaska, James Inhofe, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Missile Offense		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Missile Offense Enviros and arms-control groups are suing the Pentagon today over its plans for a new missile defense test range in the Pacific. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a number of Alaska-based plaintiffs charge that the Defense Department must cond ...
Topics: Alaska, California, Department of Defense, environmental non-government organizations, fishing, Greenpeace, Hawaii, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Just Say No! A review of Arctic Refuge	Elizabeth Grossman	11 Apr 2001	Arts and Minds
First, the facts. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge covers about 19 million acres in northeastern Alaska, almost all north of the Arctic Circle. It was created in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which renamed and more than doubled the size of an existing wildlife range, designated about 8 million acres within the refuge as wilderness, and prohibited oil and gas production in the refuge unless ...
Topics: Alaska, oil, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

10 Reasons to Drill ... Today The case for oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge	Chris Colin	22 Mar 2001	Soapbox
Who doesn't want to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? It'll be fun! We will wear special outfits, and when the oil gets in our mustaches, we'll take silly pictures and send them as postcards. The future, now more than ever, is a vast, inky utopia. Babies will squeal with delight and Alaskan koalas will slip in the oil in the most adorable ways. (Ed. -- ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Sea Lion King Sea lions escape with protections for now	Donella H. Meadows	04 Jan 2001	Global Citizen
The drama of the presidential election, they say, has awakened the interest of the public, and especially of young people, in the democratic process. So welcome, young people, to the entertainment that never ends. Once the question "who won?" is settled, other questions begin. What are the people who won up to? For whose benefit? At whose expense? Mufasa, Steller sea lion. Photo: NOAA Take, ...
Topics: Alaska, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

How Will the West Be Won?	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 ...
Topics: Alaska, California, climate, Greenpeace, Hawaii, Muckraker, Oregon, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Is Young Restless After All?	Ben White	16 Jun 1999	Muckraker
Last week, we reported on rumblings that Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) might not seek reelection next year, at least in part because committee chair term limits mean he can't be at the helm of the House Resources Committee in the next Congress. We brought the issue to the attention of Young's staff who lazily batted it away as baseless speculation, pointing out that Young has already told Alaska newspapers he will seek another term. Case close ...
Topics: Alaska, elections, Muckraker, politics, state politics (all these topics)

A Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste Alaskan finds gold mine in trash	Elizabeth Manning	10 Jun 1999	Main Dish
John Dean is never still when he's at his composting and recycling facility, tucked behind the airport in Anchorage, Alaska. Dressed in his usual baseball cap and a T-shirt that reads "Compost -- Because a Rind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste," Dean splits his days between the seat of a backhoe and his mobile-home office. One minute he's loading chocolate-brown compost into a customer's ...
Topics: Alaska, recycling, waste (all these topics)

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