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CANOE & KAYAK
February 2, 2018
Three of us -- me, my wife, Lisa, and my brother, Jerry -- were traveling from northwest Alaska's De Long Mountains to the Arctic Ocean, negotiating a route ... It was the same route we traversed, but ours was a tamer version; instead of dogsleds and canoes, we traveled in by bush plane and floated out byÃÂ ...
Bangor Daily News
January 30, 2018
Maine joined in a lawsuit against the George W. Bush administration, which resulted in a landmark 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision confirming that the 1970 ... Chellie Pingree have shown strong leadership on climate, though Collins' vote for the tax bill allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic NationalÃÂ ...
The Nation.
January 25, 2018
Yes, it's pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Yes, EPA Administrator Scott .... During the Bush years, when Dick Cheney effectively ran energy policy, Washington was similarly closed to real progress. So state governmentsÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 23, 2018
President George W. Bush opened up new areas to offshore drilling for the first time in decades when he lifted a longstanding moratorium on new drilling off much of the nation's coasts. At the same time, a bill passed by Congress in 2006 allowed new drilling in some parts of the Gulf of Mexico but bannedÃÂ ...
Nasdaq
January 15, 2018
Trump believes that Obama's five-year offshore drilling plan, which bans new leases in the Arctic and the Atlantic, has marred the nation's revenue-generating opportunities. The proposed ... for drilling. Similar attempts have been made earlier by George W. Bush, John McCain and Barack Obama as well.
Nasdaq
January 12, 2018
Trump believes that Obama's five-year offshore drilling plan, which bans new leases in the Arctic and the Atlantic, has marred the nation's revenue-generating opportunities. The proposed ... for drilling. Similar attempts have been made earlier by George W. Bush, John McCain and Barack Obama as well.
Democracy Now!
January 11, 2018
Bipartisan opposition is growing to President Trump's proposal to greatly expand offshore oil and gas drilling. The reversal of the Obama-era restrictions would open more than a billion acres of water in the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling. Initially the InteriorÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 10, 2018
President George W. Bush overturned a Clinton administration decision to allow energy drilling in a specific spot of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico off Alabama because it was too ... Trump was supposed to open drilling along the entire outer continental shelf, in the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic.
Center For American Progress
January 4, 2018
The Interior Department implemented strong and proven operational requirements to ensure that exploratory drilling activities in the Arctic are conducted in a ... In the waning days of George W. Bush's presidency, the Bush administration attempted to auction off thousands of acres of oil and gas leases nearÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 20, 2017
President Trump said he accomplished what no other Republican president since Ronald Reagan could do by opening up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which he called a "big, big deal." "Reagan tried to get it. Bush tried to get it. Everybody tried to get it. They couldn't get it passed," TrumpÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 10, 2017
At that moment, it looked as though the decades-long fight over drilling in 1.5 million acres of the remote refuge could finally be at an end. Republicans essentially gave up for the remainder of the George W. Bush administration after Democrats won control of Congress, and the drilling proposal had noÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
October 17, 2017
WASHINGTON — Tucked into the budget bill the Senate is likely to pass this week is a provision that could quietly open the door to drilling in Alaska's ... The fight over arctic drilling was front-page news and became a major campaign issue when the Bush administration and congressional RepublicansÃÂ ...
Center For American Progress
October 10, 2017
Since President Dwight D. Eisenhower first protected the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge more than 50 years ago, subsequent presidents and houses of Congress have time and again resisted the urge to allow oil drilling in the place known as “America's last great wilderness.” In 1995, President Bill ClintonÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
December 31, 1999
President George W. Bush opened up new areas to offshore drilling for the first time in decades when he lifted a long-standing moratorium on new drilling off ... Obama called for what he described as a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard,ÃÂ ...
The Real News Network
September 22, 2017
He is the author of “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land” ... of Interior's attempts to open up the Arctic Refuge to drilling and then talk to us, ... Fast forward to George W. Bush Administration, where I startedÃÂ ...
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
September 21, 2017
He previously worked at EPA during the G.W. Bush Administration. ... to allow exploratory drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Chicago Tribune
September 21, 2017
Canada, which has a complex set of fishing and Arctic concerns, waited until ... George W. Bush called for ratification in 2004 and again in 2007. ... to invest in drilling operations in these areas, in part because insurers may notÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
September 20, 2017
... Congress that the Arctic Refuge should be open to oil drilling, and in ... During his time as an aide at the agency during the George W. BushÃÂ ...
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
September 15, 2017
President Trump's call for drilling in the Arctic Refuge in his 2018 budget ... representative Diane Mitsch Bush is and know what an outstandingÃÂ ...
Fortune
September 15, 2017
This time last year, drilling in ANWR no longer seemed like a major issue to many. ... an executive order to expand offshore drilling, including in the Arctic, ... Survey under President George W. Bush, which made the estimate.
Los Angeles Times
September 13, 2017
... the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling that had failed ... Domenici was on President George H.W. Bush's short list ofÃÂ ...
Mongabay.com
September 13, 2017
His son, George W. Bush, reversed the presidential ban on offshore ... the entire Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean for drilling.
Axios
December 31, 1999
George W. Bush is correctly remembered for bailing on his campaign pledge to ... in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, even though drilling in the Alaska regionÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
December 31, 1999
Before contacting Ashe for a one-on-one interview after his speech, I boarded my bush plane of recollections to the Kongakut River and aÃÂ ...
ZME Science
March 1, 2017
If I were Shell, I'd even say that I warned the world of climate change since the George Bush / Al Gore debates. These are all realities, and in a way, Shell could be considered the best of the worst - out of all the big oil companies, Shell has been ...
Politico
March 1, 2017
"The Interior has one of the most complex and varied missions of the entire federal government," said Lynn Scarlett, global managing director for public policy at The Nature Conservancy, and a former Interior deputy secretary under the George W. Bush ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 28, 2017
In 2001, President George W. Bush declared Putin "trustworthy," and the Kremlin offered only a muted reaction when Bush pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. In 2009, despite Russia's aggression in Georgia the previous August, President ...
Newsweek
February 25, 2017
Russian servicemen of the Northern Fleet's Arctic mechanized infantry brigade participate in a military drill on riding reindeer and dog sleds near the settlement of Lovozero outside Murmansk, Russia, January 23.
The Guardian
February 21, 2017
A few diplomats expelled from the United States is a small price to pay for a potential end to US sanctions, a renewal of economic ties and joint oil-drilling in the Russian Arctic, and the de facto acknowledgment of Crimea as part of the Russian ...
E&E News
February 20, 2017
Resolutions are pending in Congress against Obama administration rules on oil and gas drilling, wildlife and public lands. Photos courtesy of Richard Webb/Geograph (left), U.S.
E&E News
February 20, 2017
Resolutions are pending in Congress against Obama administration rules on oil and gas drilling, wildlife and public lands. ... Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). It would overturn the so-called Planning 2.0 rule, finalized by BLM in December, which congressional ...
The Boston Globe
February 19, 2017
Bush already had done much to unwind safety and health regulations, from lowering acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water to lifting ergonomic standards for the workplace.
Daily Kos
February 18, 2017
Freak heat waves in the high Arctic have kept ice from forming at the usual winter rate, and now summer down under is taking its toll on the world's largest ice sheets: Sea ice in the Antarctic is at its lowest level since records began while the ...
Niagara Gazette
February 18, 2017
... Private Manning's sentence, essentially for treason; and perhaps most laudably, his ban on oil and gas drilling on federally owned property with abundant wildlife in the Arctic, and in the Atlantic from coasts off Massachusetts to Virginia (seems ...
Gothamist
February 17, 2017
[UPDATE BELOW]: President Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has spent the majority of his career fighting against the EPA, having served as an outspoken ally of the fossil fuel industry and, as Oklahoma's attorneyÃÂ ...
The Delaware County Daily Times
February 14, 2017
... drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and on equal rights for all. Your efforts as a congressman to repeal restrictions on the banking industry, along with the massive tax cuts you helped the Bush administration enact while you were a ...
Democrat Nation (registration) (blog)
February 12, 2017
During his first term, President Obama continued many of Bush's military policies, keeping the infamous Guantanamo prison open and continuing military action in Afghanistan.
Truth-Out
February 12, 2017
Less than three weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump is clearly what George W. Bush once claimed to be: "a uniter, not a divider.
Bloomberg BNA
February 10, 2017
... yet: on the horizon are resolutions introduced to roll back Environmental Protection Agency rules limiting air pollutants that cross state lines; EPA requirements for risk management plants to prevent chemical releases; and Interior Department ...
WEEI.com
February 9, 2017
He's almost Kelly angry killer rip up this morning with the bush Kelly rip as a co sponsoring. .... Even though I doing was wrong when he was making the calls them are resilient and constantly during a two minute drill that he can make them wrong calls ...
The Signal
February 9, 2017
From 2001 to 2009, Chao served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor under Former President George W. Bush and was the only cabinet member to serve all eight years of his administration.
Ecotone (blog)
February 8, 2017
Witnesses Tuesday included Jeff Holmstead, partner, Bracewell LLP and former EPA air chief in the administration of former President George W. Bush, and Dr. Richard Belzer, independent consultant. .... Joint Resolutions: The House introduced many joint ...
Jacobin magazine
February 3, 2017
Congressional Democrats also fought back industry attempts to rewrite the Clean Air Act, prevented Watt from opening up wilderness areas to fossil-fuel drilling, and blocked Reagan's plan to lease the entirety of the 1.4-million-acre outer continental ...
Channel 4 News (blog)
February 1, 2017
He is a fan of fossil fuels "made in America", Arctic oil drilling and has appointed a critic of the Environmental Protection Agency to run the agency.
KRWG
February 1, 2017
Commentary: Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, voted against the confirmation of Rex Tillerson to serve as U.S.
Politico
January 31, 2017
Hesse elaborates: "For example: Exxon retains firm ABC to lobby on Arctic drilling rights. My idea is that firm ABC would have to ... Zelermyer previously was senior counsel at the Energy Department under George W. Bush. He succeeds Craig Felner, who ...
OB Rag
January 31, 2017
It was only when the prime beneficiary of this backlash shifted from hard-rock mining to the fossil fuel industry during the oil-heavy Bush/Cheney administration that the anti-environmental rhetoric of Wise Use became mainstream in the Republican Party ...
InsideClimate News
January 30, 2017
Among the fuzzy pledges President Trump has made in his energy plans, his idea to pay for a $1 trillion public infrastructure program with a bonanza of fossil fuel mining and drilling revenue stands out as particularly far-fetched. .... Bush withdrew ...
Houston Chronicle
January 27, 2017
The U.S. oil and gas industry is widely considered one of the most technologically advanced in the world, having pioneered fracking techniques as well as other advanced technologies needed to drill in Russia's harsh Arctic terrains and to liquefy ...
Axis of Logic
January 26, 2017
WE ALREADY KNOW that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, wage all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," trash climate science and unleash a fossil-fuel frenzy.
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