A 0% rating from the League of Conservation Voters. One of the worst anti-environment Senators in the history of U.S. government.
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Roll Call, citing the report, said Sgt. Dave Karsnia made the arrest after an encounter in which he was seated in a stall next to a stall occupied by Craig. Karsnia described Craig tapping his foot, which Karsnia said he “recognized as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct.”
Roll Call quoted the Aug. 8 police report as saying that Craig had handed the arresting officer a business card that identified him as a member of the Senate.
“What do you think about that?” Craig is alleged to have said, according to the report.
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According to lawyers from Defenders of Wildlife, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, seems to be pulling some moves out of the Dick Cheney playbook — the very same tricks of evasion and secrecy that have jeopardized the vice president’s reputation in the fiasco surrounding his energy task force.
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Cascade County fire chiefs are hot over what they see as a pressing public safety need to increase water capacity at new, large subdivisions.
“Sooner or later, you get a lot of homes, and you have a catastrophe,” said James Neumann, chief of the Vaughn Volunteer Fire Department.
This is the problem with “curing” a species from extinction and then ending any kind of protection. An endangered species will generally always be endangered because a great deal of people are selfish with little self awareness of any kind.
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The most significant changes removed the requirement for a Fish and Wildlife consultation for proposed development within the setback for bald eagle nests. They also reduced the 1,320-foot setback to 660 feet. In some instances the setback could be as little as 330 feet.
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Some 5 million Americans will visit the Grand Canyon this year, heeding the advice of Theodore Roosevelt to enjoy one of “the great sights, which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.” But while the canyon may be timeless, its surroundings are not. There’s a race afoot — within miles of the park’s majestic rim — to snatch up mining rights on public lands for extracting uranium, gold and other hard-rock metals. What’s worse, a 135-year-old federal law not only makes the practice legal but underwrites mining at taxpayer expense.
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No sooner had President Bush taken office, though, than his appointees started to undo the Clinton rule. They failed to defend it in court and came up with their own rule, which would allow exploitation of areas Clinton sought to protect. Caught in the middle of this wrangling is the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire, where forest officials have proposed to allow logging in roadless areas. The forest service should put this logging on hold until courts — or a new administration in Washington — determines the fate of the Clinton