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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Clear Skies in Morning, Bushies Take Warning Bush team pushes Clear Skies, but disagreement over CO2 could stymie the bill	Amanda Griscom Little	27 Jan 2005	Muckraker
Barely a week into the president's second term, the emboldened Bush team -- even whilst juggling plans for a Social Security overhaul and major new expenditures on the Iraq venture -- has signaled that it's bound and determined to pass its Clear Skies Act, the first major amendment to the Clean Air Act since 1990. The administration has k ...
Topics: air pollution, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Porkic Victory Pork-laden corporate tax bill socks it to the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Oct 2004	Muckraker
Oink, oink. The monstrous corporate tax legislation that recently sailed through Congress -- passing in the Senate 69-17 last Monday, only days after it passed in the House -- has given the environmental community a terrible case of Coulda-Been-Worse Syndrome. "We're well aware that this bill reflects the kind of sausage-making, vote-building, pigs-at-the-trough mentality that C ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics, waste (all these topics)

Bird in the Hand Worth Two for Bush?	Ben White	02 Jun 1999	Muckraker
While you were smoothing on suntan lotion or stoking the barbecue this weekend, Texas state legislators were madly finishing up work before their midnight May 31 deadline. Gov. George W. Bush's tax cuts and education initiatives got most of the attention, but we kept our gaze trained on the environmental bills likely to come up in debate as "Dubya" leaves the friendly confines of Austin and hits the presidential campaign tra ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy, Washington (all these topics)

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