ECOLOGY

Here are a couple of articles that you should read. Thanks...................Scott

FOCUS | States Win Clean Air Battle
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031806Y.shtml
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a clean-air regulation issued by
the Bush administration that would have let many power plants, refineries and
factories avoid installing costly new pollution controls to help offset any
increased emissions caused by repairs and replacements of equipment.

FOCUS | Senate OKs Budget With Arctic Refuge Drilling Provision
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031806X.shtml
The Senate narrowly passed a budget resolution Thursday that would open the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, setting up another showdown in
Congress this year over the most fought-over piece of land in America.
Republican leaders approved the measure 51-49 after securing the vote of Senator
Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, by offering up to $10 billion in projected
revenues from drilling in the Alaskan refuge and in offshore waters to rebuild
the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast.