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Headline	Author	Published	Section
When $10.9 billion is just not enough ExxonMobil's profits huge; shares fall anyway	Josh Dorner	02 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, business, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

A penny saved ... Note to Bush, media: Opening ANWR cuts gas prices one cent in 2025	Joseph Romm	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, dumbassery, energy, George Bush, oil, politics (all these topics)

'ANWR, nukes, more ethanol, new technology, blah, blah, blah' Bush's energy/food strategy unsurprisingly underwhelming	Joseph Romm	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, ethanol, George Bush, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

A Tough Drill to Swallow President Bush stumps for ANWR drilling and dirty-energy expansion		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 29 Apr 2008 In a speech Tuesday, President Bush aimed to pacify Americans' concerns about skyrocketing fuel and food prices with the assurance that it's all Congress' fault. Bush advocated tackling energy prices by throwing environmental protection to the winds (in not quite those words), urging Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and rah-rah-ing new ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, coal, dumbassery , energy, George Bush, news, nuclear power, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

OPEC chief joins $200 oil chorus Bush, Big Oil offer more of the same	Josh Dorner	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, energy, George Bush, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Drill Team Alaska senators introduce legislation to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:22 PM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Madhav Pai The push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back on. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens have introduced legislation that would allow drilling in the Refuge if oil should hit $125 a barrel for five straight days. (For those keeping track at home, oil prices Thursday hit a record high of $111 a barrel.) "I can't believe that they would ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic refuge, carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Mitt Romney, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Leave 'Er, Man Lieberman introduces bill to designate Arctic Refuge as wilderness		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:16 PM on 07 Nov 2007 Part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be designated as wilderness under legislation introduced today by Sen. Joe Lieberman and 25 colleagues. Wilderness designation for the 1.5-million-acre coastal plains region would rebuff seemingly nonstop attempts to drill for oil and gas there. Says Lieberman in a stroke of analogy genius, "America's strength is not in our oil ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Fun and James Sarah James, Gwich'in activist and environmental prizewinner, answers readers' questions		15 Dec 2006	InterActivist
What are the Gwich'in Steering Committee's plans for the next two years, and what can all of us people who live in the Lower 48 do to help the committee in its work? ��-- Lenny Kohm, Todd, N.C. Sarah James, Gwich'in Steering Committee. We are going to continue to educate the world about global warming. People will see that it makes no sense to open a new place to drilling for oil, ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Que Sarah, Sarah Sarah James, Gwich'in activist and environmental prizewinner, answers Grist's questions		11 Dec 2006	InterActivist
Sarah James. What work do you do? I am the board chairperson for the Gwich'in Steering Committee. I work as I live the life. And I am open to opportunities to tell my story in order to protect the calving and nursery grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd. What does your organization do? The Gwich'in Steering Committee works on behalf of the Gwich'in Nation to protect Iizhik Gwats' ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling The Bush administration's lust for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having gone unrequited, it's going to stick its derricks in some sloppy seconds: The Department of Interior is opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of other Alaskan wildlife habitat to dri ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Sen. Ted Stevens: Crybaby	David Roberts	22 Dec 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Stevens and the defense bill	David Roberts	19 Dec 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

Arctic Refuge drilling to be attached to defense appropriations bill	David Roberts	15 Dec 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, dumbassery, legislation, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, US Senate (all these topics)

Raiders of the Lost Arctic Oil drills getting closer than ever to the Arctic Refuge	Amanda Griscom Little	20 Oct 2005	Muckraker
The future of the Arctic Refuge? "The threat to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has never been greater than it is today," according to Brian Moore, legislative director for the Alaska Wilderness League. And, though the battle over the refuge has a Groundhog Day quality to it -- haven't we heard this same alarm sounding before? -- this time advocates on both sides ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Dispatches from Arctic Refuge Action Day A family sends firsthand accounts from the rally	Sarah van Schagen	21 Sep 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Caribou-Hoo-Hoo Senate votes to open Arctic Refuge to drilling	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Mar 2005	Muckraker
Stickin' it to the porcupine caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. Oil companies are closing in on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a crushing blow to those who have fought for some 25 years to preserve the unspoiled Alaskan wildland, the Senate voted today to clear the way for oil and gas drilling within the Arctic Refuge. By a 51-49 vote, they rejected a ...
Topics: Arctic, Arctic Refuge, energy, Muckraker, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Because it's there	David Roberts	24 Feb 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Frankenbill The energy bill is alive -- alive! -- and that could be bad news for ANWR	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Nov 2004	Muckraker
A day after winning the presidential election last week, George W. Bush made this now-legendary -- and, to some, menacing -- statement: "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." Without dwelling on the notion that conservatives are supposed to protect and grow capital, not fritter it away, environmentalists are wondering j ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Parody on Parade An improbable plan would use Arctic Refuge drilling proceeds to fund transportation projects	Amanda Griscom	11 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Beltway insiders waited with bated breath yesterday to see if Sen. Peter Domenici (R-N.M.) would succeed in tacking his stalled-out energy bill onto the huge highway transportation bill now wending its way through Congress. The consensus from his Senate Republican colleagues? No deal. In need of refuge. Photo: FWS. But another cockamamie plan that would min ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

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