Just the fact that Obama is considering this is ridiculous: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — […]
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 […]
This is from a press release that went out this afternoon from The Heritage Forests Campaign: The Bush administration today released documents announcing its intention to remove protections for more than six million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last intact national […]
The Senate Energy Committee has approved the ANWR bill to open up oil drilling in the northern parts of Alaska. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Energy Committee voted on Wednesday to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling as part of a broad budget bill to fund the federal government. Tapping the […]