http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030608EA.shtml
Brad Knickerbocker, The Christian Science Monitor, writes: "The political tussle over whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant subject to government regulation has gone on for years.... Fast forward to the present, and the fight continues - this time pitting the Bush administration against a group of 19 governors led by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican) of California."
Northwest Logging Plans Slashed
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The Associated Press reports: "Going against Bush administration efforts to increase Northwest logging, the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday dropped plans to slash protections for old growth forests used as nesting trees by a threatened sea bird."
Salties Ordered to Swish and Spit
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030608EC.shtml
Kari Lydersen, In These Times, says that starting this shipping season in March, "All ocean-going ships will have to rinse out their empty ballast tanks with seawater at least 200 nautical miles from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence Seaway that leads into the Great Lakes." The goal is to stop invasive species from Asia and Eastern Europe from entering the Great Lakes.
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