ECOLOGY
TWO-THIRDS OF LAND IN OR NEAR NATIONAL WILDERNESS IS CONTROLLED BY OIL AND MINING INTERESTS
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2005/2005-04-13-06.asp
ENS - Oil and gas drilling and mining interests control land in or near more than two-thirds of national parks, forests and wilderness areas, a computer analysis of 1,855 taxpayer owned public properties in the West reveals. Over more than two years, millions of federal land use records in 13 states were analyzed by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington that uses information to protect human health and the environment.
"At current loss rates, within 20 years, mining and oil and gas industries will actively drill, mine, or otherwise control public lands inside or within five miles of every Western natural treasure, including all national parks and wilderness areas," the EWG determined in its report, "Losing Ground."
EWG analysts found that contrary to industry claims that conservationists have kept their activities out of public lands, petroleum and mining companies control public lands inside or within five miles of 69 percent of the 1,855 parks, wilderness areas, forests and other public treasures analyzed for this study.
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FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTIONS PLUMMET UNDER BUSH
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/environ/65/
TRAC - Federal prosecutors have filed environmental charges against substantially fewer defendants during the administration of President Bush than they did during either of President Clinton's two terms, according to a unique new data base developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Records on cases involving alleged criminal violations of any one of more than 1,400 federal environmental statutes were examined. Using these government data sources, TRAC identified 30,936 defendants targeted by investigatory agencies for alleged environmental violations during the Clinton-Bush years, including over 20,000 who were actually criminally prosecuted.
The contrast between the Clinton and Bush years is dramatic. From the first Clinton term (1993-1996) to the second (1997-2000), the number of all kinds of environmental prosecutions jumped by more than a quarter, 28%.
But a comparison of the second Clinton term (1997-2000) with the Bush years (2002-2004) shows the opposite, a drop of 23%.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2005/2005-04-13-06.asp
ENS - Oil and gas drilling and mining interests control land in or near more than two-thirds of national parks, forests and wilderness areas, a computer analysis of 1,855 taxpayer owned public properties in the West reveals. Over more than two years, millions of federal land use records in 13 states were analyzed by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington that uses information to protect human health and the environment.
"At current loss rates, within 20 years, mining and oil and gas industries will actively drill, mine, or otherwise control public lands inside or within five miles of every Western natural treasure, including all national parks and wilderness areas," the EWG determined in its report, "Losing Ground."
EWG analysts found that contrary to industry claims that conservationists have kept their activities out of public lands, petroleum and mining companies control public lands inside or within five miles of 69 percent of the 1,855 parks, wilderness areas, forests and other public treasures analyzed for this study.
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FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTIONS PLUMMET UNDER BUSH
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/environ/65/
TRAC - Federal prosecutors have filed environmental charges against substantially fewer defendants during the administration of President Bush than they did during either of President Clinton's two terms, according to a unique new data base developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Records on cases involving alleged criminal violations of any one of more than 1,400 federal environmental statutes were examined. Using these government data sources, TRAC identified 30,936 defendants targeted by investigatory agencies for alleged environmental violations during the Clinton-Bush years, including over 20,000 who were actually criminally prosecuted.
The contrast between the Clinton and Bush years is dramatic. From the first Clinton term (1993-1996) to the second (1997-2000), the number of all kinds of environmental prosecutions jumped by more than a quarter, 28%.
But a comparison of the second Clinton term (1997-2000) with the Bush years (2002-2004) shows the opposite, a drop of 23%.
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