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 Stories About: litigation AND national forests AND news AND United States AND US Forest Service
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You've Got Jail
Forest Service official threatened with jail time over fish-killing fire retardant |
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14 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:17 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Mark Rey, the undersecretary of agriculture in charge of the U.S. Forest Service, has been threatened with jail time or house arrest for his agency's attempts to continue using a flame retardant on forest fires that's toxic to fish. In 2002, fire retardant was dropped on a blaze in central Oregon, killing about 20,000 fish. Soon after, green group Forest Service Em ... |
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| Topics: litigation, national forests, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Hydra Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bush admin backs off appeal of nixed forest-management rules, to release new ones |
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09 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:12 AM on 09 Jan 2008 The Bush administration has backed off of an appeal of a March 2007 ruling that overturned controversial management rules for national forests. The struck-down rules allowed national forest managers to approve logging, mining, cell-phone towers, and other commercial projects without undergoing environmental reviews and were found to violate the Endange ... |
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| Topics: litigation, national forests, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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