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9/27/2005
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| The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is truly one of America’s last wild places. It contains no roads, trails, or structures, so you must fly, boat, or walk to get there. It is a pristine habitat, one that supports large populations of migratory birds, caribou, muskoxen, all three species of bear, wolves, Dall sheep, and snow geese. The annual migration of the 129,000-member caribou herd evokes images of the long-gone buffalo herds of the Great Plains. |
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8/29/2001
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| Sprawl is threatening our environment and quality of life in Pennsylvania. Inefficient and unplanned growth in the state is leading to the rapid destruction of open space and increasing auto-dependency. Fueled by harmful public subsidies, this development pattern threatens our environment and public health through the destruction of species habitat, the loss of farmland and increases in air and water pollution. It diminishes Pennsylvanians’ quality of life by increasing traffic, causing the abandonment of our cities and engendering a troubling loss of community throughout the state. Sprawl also wastes tax dollars by neglecting existing resources and forcing the construction of new infrastructure (schools and sewers) and the expansion of services (police and fire protection). |
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6/17/2002
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| Severe cuts in two of Pennsylvania's key environmental programs—coupled with new policies that would intensify logging and oil and gas drilling on public lands—threaten the future of many key ecosystems across the state. |
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4/22/2003
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| Behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny, electric utilities, the oil industry, big timber companies and other corporate polluters are coordinating an organized assault on our cornerstone environmental and public health protections. And the Bush administration is helping them. |
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4/20/2004
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| On April 22, 1970, America celebrated its first Earth Day, demonstrating a national and truly bipartisan outpouring of concern for cleaning up the environment. According to some recollections of that day, "So many politicians were on the stump on Earth Day that Congress was forced to close down. The oratory, one of the wire services observed, was 'as thick as smog at rush hour.'" 1 In the decade that followed, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and other laws that form the cornerstone of our country's commitment to protect the environment and public health. |
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09/27/2007
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| After decades of scientific inquiry, 600 public hearings, and a record 1.6 million comments from the American public, the Clinton administration issued the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in January 2001. The Roadless Rule, as it is commonly known, originally protected 58.5 million acres of wild national forest land from most commercial logging and road-building, and associated mining and drilling. Since then, the Bush administration has removed these protections from 9.5 million acres of roadless areas in the Tongass National Forest. |
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