No community deserves to be left at risk of wildfire. The Forest Service should focus its people and resources on Community Protection Zones, not let them be diverted to low-priority backcountry projects.
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Those leaders who have stood strong to keep Arctic drilling out of the budget must continue to hold the line. Its time for Congress to put this bad idea to rest once and for all and focus instead breaking our oil addiction with clean energy solutions.Carl Pope
President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.
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The senators go home and find out, if they vote for this stuff, then the voters are going to be upset. Their own voters don't like it.
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While we salute and celebrate this progress, we cannot afford to gamble with the bears' future. The Yellowstone grizzly bear is an irreplaceable part of America's natural heritage, an icon of all that is wild and free.
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The president continues to promote technologies that are years or even decades away from becoming available in order to distract the American people from the devastating realities of today resulting from his failed energy policy.
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Today the Senate gave the oil industry and (Sen.) Stevens the lump of coal they deserved.
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