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Besides, while Congress did not do everything the Bush administration or the natural resources producers wanted, neither did it stop the administration from doing a great deal of what it could do without asking Congress. Using executive power, the Bush administration achieved its first real breach of the national forests' Roadless Area Protection Rule - invoked by President Clinton in 2000 and uninvoked ever since by George W. Bush - when logging was begun in Oregon's largest roadless area over the objections of Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski. In August, the Forest Service leased 22,000 acres of roadless forest in western Colorado and eastern Utah.
Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, arguably the last liberal Republican extant, is chairman of the Fisheries, Wildlife and Water Subcommittee of the Committee on Environment and Public Works. When the ESA bill sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo of California passed the House by two votes last November, it went to Chafee's subcommittee, where ... well, nothing happened. Chairmen can do that.The strategy could backfire, however, if Chafee gets the boot but the Republicans hang onto the majority. In that scenario, global-warming denier James Inhofe, R-Okla., probably keeps the chairmanship of the full committee - and at best, Chafee's committee falls to a less reliably green Republican.See the full content of this document
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The Green Republican: Back From the Dead?
WASHINGTON, D.C.
It looks as though the Endangered Species Act is not going to be eviscerated this year. Neither will the National Environmental Policy Act. On second thought, the government will not sell off millions of acres of the public domain for as little as a thousand dollars an acre. For the nonce, at least, oil rig...See the full content of this document
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