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 Stories About: Harry Reid AND politics AND toxics
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Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion
Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate |
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08 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate An epic drama is playing out in the U.S. Capitol over ... asbestos. Seriously. A bill -- which, after a 98 to 1 vote in the Senate yesterday, will now move to the floor for debate -- would create a $140 billion industry-financed trust fund for victims of asbestos-related illness, but would ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Harry Reid, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Reid Between the Mines
Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry |
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02 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry Sen. Harry Reid, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, knows full-well that his home state of Nevada isn't a liberal or environmental stronghold. Thus he has had to balance his party's political agenda with his state's economic interests, and one of those big interests is mining. Reid has repeat ... |
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| Topics: Harry Reid, mining, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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Reid It and Weep
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28 Sep 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Reid It and Weep The annual rider battle is in full swing, with a number of lawmakers in Washington., D.C, trying to attach pieces of anti-environmental legislation to large, must-pass government funding bills. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tacked a rider onto an Interior Department spending bill that would block federal agencies from adopting tough new rules governing hard-rock mining. Another measure attached to a spending bi ... |
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| Topics: Harry Reid, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Congress Is Playing the Ugly Rider Game Again
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Donella H. Meadows |
26 Jul 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| "ACTION ALERT. This week the Senate is expected to vote on an Interior Appropriations bill that has a dirty baker's dozen of anti-environmental riders. Now is the time to step up our opposition to these undemocratic attacks on the environment." I get so darn sick of these emails. I get sick of the whole cynical rider game. They play it, down there in the Great White Governing City, whenever they ap ... |
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| Topics: Harry Reid, mining, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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