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Waive Goodbye
Chertoff waives environmental laws to continue border-fence construction |
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23 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:26 AM on 23 Oct 2007 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived several environmental laws on Monday in order to continue construction of nearly seven miles of the sprawling fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Work on the section that crosses the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz., had been halted due to a ruling two weeks ago that the administration had spent ... |
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| Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Mexico, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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