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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Whistle While You Work		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Whistle While You Work In a new twist to the Klamath River controversy, Michael Kelly, a biologist with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, is blowing the whistle on the Bush administration for drafting and approving a water plan that he says provides inadequate protections for endangered salmon. The accusations come after the U.S. Bureau of Rec ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Gutter Politics		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gutter Politics At the same time that is it seeking to rollback the Clean Water Act and other historic environmental legislation, the Bush administration is cracking down on sewage spills in Portland, Ore., and other major cities. Municipal leaders in Portland accuse the administration of selectively punishing areas that are traditional Democratic strongholds, but the U.S. EPA says it's just ...
Topics: Oregon, politics, Portland, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Sleep With the Fishes		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sleep With the Fishes At least 20,000 chinook salmon and other fish have died in Northern California's Klamath River in the last two weeks, but federal officials are unwilling to attribute the deaths to the Bush administration's decision to divert water away from the river this year and into an irrigation project in southern Oregon. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Wil ...
Topics: agriculture, California, marine life, Oregon, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Look for the Onion Label?		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Look for the Onion Label? It's not quite like a pie in the face or mashed potatoes on the cafeteria ceiling, but Oregonians can still expect a food fight come November. The state seems poised to be the first in the nation to vote on a labeling law for genetically modified foods, now that the backers of the initiative, Oregon Concerned Citizens for Safe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs, Oregon, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Miner Threat		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Miner Threat The Bush administration canceled yesterday a two-year ban on new mining claims in roughly 1.2 million acres in and around southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest. The ban was imposed by the Clinton administration in response to lobbying efforts by conservationists, who wanted the area declared a national monument. Instead, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt imposed the moratorium to a ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Oregon, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ...
Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

How Will the West Be Won?	Ben White	27 Mar 2000	Muckraker
In our last column, we promised to put the presidential campaign on the back burner and take a look at some of the key House and Senate races likely to decide control of the 107th Congress, as well some of the competitive gubernatorial contests. Instead of attempting to cover the entire country in one column (a feat exhausting for both reader and columnist), we will begin this week with the Pacific region and move on in subsequent columns thr ...
Topics: Alaska, California, climate, Greenpeace, Hawaii, Muckraker, Oregon, politics, Washington (all these topics)

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