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Cattle Growers’ Association Wins Suit Against Endangered Species Act Enforcement, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Arizona rancher Jeff Menges and the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association won an appeal against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over "incidental takings" in an endangered species case. The Ninth Circuit ...
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League of Conservation Voters Gets It Wrong on Bush Record, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) has released a report claiming President Bush deserves a grade of "D-" for his handling of environmental issues during his first years in office. In arriving at this grade, LCV president, Deb Callahan, ...
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Senator John Kerry’s Energy Plan Disagrees with Facts and Himself, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) delivered a rambling presentation of his "energy plan" on January 22, in which he grossly misrepresented facts and contradicted himself. In doing so, he has aligned himself with the extreme left-wing "environmentalists" of his party ...
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Sierra Club & NRDC Urge Calls to White House about Clean Air Rules and New Source Review, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: The Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are urging their members to call the White House January 17 and ask the President to not "reward his campaign contributors by rolling back the Clean Air Act." This is ...
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Project 21 Press Release: NAACP Intimidation Tactics in South Carolina Criticized

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As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) prepares to deploy "border patrols" to enforce their boycott of the state of South Carolina, the African-American leadership network Project 21 is highly critical of the NAACP's intimidation tactics ...
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Project 21 Release: NAACP Intimidation Tactics in South Carolina Criticized – January 2002

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As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) prepares to deploy "border patrols" to enforce their boycott of the state of South Carolina, the African-American leadership network Project 21 is highly critical of the NAACP's intimidation tactics ...
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Antarctica Cooling Despite Supposed Global Warming, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Nature magazine online reports January 14 that studies show temperatures on the continent of Antarctica have been falling 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since the mid-l980s. This disputes earlier claims that temperatures were rising in Antarctica, but earlier readings ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Opposes Racially Divisive Plan to Reinstate Military Draft – January 2003

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A proposal by Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) to reinstate a military draft is under fire from African-American conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network. Project 21 members call the Rangel proposal a blatant political maneuver meant to inject a ...
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Federal Government Unsure about Appealing Bitterroot Decision, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: A federal judge in Montana has barred the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) from opening 46,000 acres of the Bitterroot National Forest to salvage logging, saying the USFS decision did not allow for public comment and thus violated the Forest ...
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Endangered Species Act Studies May be Hoaxes Designed to Restrict Human Use of Government Lands, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: Seven officials from the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife were found recently to have submitted falsified samples of Canadian lynx hair to labs as part of a study ...
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