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Leave 'Er, Man
Lieberman introduces bill to designate Arctic Refuge as wilderness |
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07 Nov 2007 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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