Tag: federal register

Environmentalists have feared that Bush would try to use his last year in office to push for opening up areas for drilling, and that is exactly his plan: The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most endangered […]

Yet more of our privacy is under attack and this time it comes from the IRS: The Internal Revenue Service is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers for the first time would be able to sell information from individual returns — or […]