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Oct 24, 2005	Poachers Looting National Parks of Treasures QUOTE: "The poaching of wildlife from national parks has been steadily increasing each year for the past several years,"... Some of these resources are scarce to begin with, and the toll that poaching takes on the national parks is rising.	Washington Post
Oct 23, 2005	The Catch QUOTE: Thanks to the free-market policies of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, southern Chile would end up being one of the first new territories to bear the brunt of the displaced international fleets. As part of what the Pinochet junta called the Apertura, or "Opening," foreign trawlers were granted cheap access to the fertile waters of the Chilean continental shelf. Within a few years they began wiping out stocks of hake and other codlike fish, pushing local Chilean fisherman, known as los artesanales, off their traditional fishing grounds.	New York Times
Oct 20, 2005	Group Sues Navy to Limit Sonar It Says Harms Marine Life QUOTE: "Military sonar needlessly threatens whole populations of whales and other marine animals...In violation of our environmental laws, the Navy refuses to take basic precautions..."	Washington Post
Sep 23, 2005	Rewrite of Endangered Species Law Approved: House to Vote Soon; Senate Could in 2006 QUOTE: Setting the stage for the most sweeping restructuring of endangered species protections in three decades, the House Resources Committee yesterday approved legislation that would strengthen the hand of private property owners and make it harder for federal officials to set aside large swaths of habitat for imperiled plants and animals.	Washington Post
Sep 08, 2005	Bird's Advocates Challenge Corps QUOTE: Today the National Wildlife Federation and the Arkansas Wildlife Federation are filing a lawsuit in federal district court in Little Rock, challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plans to spend $319 million to take water from the White River and give it to farmers.	Washington Post
Aug 24, 2005	Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared QUOTE: Michael Hirshfield, chief scientist at the advocacy group Oceana, said he has repeatedly seen government officials provide shifting estimates of how many threatened or endangered sea turtles can acceptably die each year in eastern scallop fisheries.	Washington Post
Jul 02, 2005	Future of Salmon Leads to Dispute Over Federal Dams: Environmental Effect Is Questioned QUOTE: ...described the administration's 2004 biological opinion -- it says dams are an ineluctable part of the river's environmental baseline -- as a document written "more in cynicism than in sincerity." The sincerity of the administration's policy is also being questioned by some scientists who work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service...	Washington Post
Jun 10, 2005	Horseshoe Crabs' Decline Further Imperils Shorebirds: Mid-Atlantic States Searching for Ways to Reverse Trend QUOTE: "'It's appalling that you would destroy one of the great wildlife spectacles in the world so a few guys could make money scooping up horseshoe crabs for bait,'...Watermen in 15 states along the Atlantic coast, on the other hand, resent the regulators who have limited their horseshoe crab take since 1998."	Washington Post
Apr 01, 2005	Joint US-UK Cover-Up Alleged Over GM Maize QUOTE: The whereabouts of 170,000 tonnes of contaminated GM maize and its possible import into the UK has caused an international investigation and claims of a cover-up on both sides of the Atlantic.	Guardian Unlimited
Mar 08, 2005	Panther Advocate Fights to Get Job Back: Biologist Takes On Fish and Wildlife Service QUOTE: "...[Andy] Eller has mounted a one-man campaign against what he says is a corrupt system within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that favors politically wired real estate developers over, well, fish and wildlife."	Washington Post
Oct 09, 2004	Ocean Exploitation Surfaces as Crisis: Widespread Pollution, Overfishing Spur Presidential Panel to Urge New Rules QUOTE: For centuries, the various studies note, Americans have treated coastal waters as theirs for the taking, seeking bounty with little government oversight. Fishing boats trawled and trapped at will, oil companies built huge rigs to tap offshore resources, and cruise ships crisscrossed sensitive habitats so tourists could gawk at marine life.	Washington Post
Aug 16, 2004	'Data Quality' Law Is Nemesis Of Regulation QUOTE: The Data Quality Act...is just two sentences directing the OMB to ensure that all information disseminated by the federal government is reliable...interpretation of those two sentences could tip the balance in regulatory disputes that weigh the interests of consumers and businesses.	Washington Post
Aug 13, 2004	Wildlife Board OKs Hearst Deal: Its vote to provide $34.5 million toward purchase draws criticism from some environmentalists QUOTE: The hearing pitted conservationists against one another with some urging speedy approval and others asking the state to go back to the bargaining table for a better deal on protecting public access, the environment and the public pocket book.	Los Angeles Times
Aug 10, 2004	Critics Say Developers' Report Skirts Key Issues: Testing of possible toxic waste sites is ignored, environmentalists say. Rancho Mission Viejo officials point out that the study is preliminary. QUOTE: Officials...said the report is only a general roadmap of development effects...But critics...contend that it should include at least some mention of soil and groundwater testing at two former weapons testing sites...	Los Angeles Times
Aug 09, 2004	Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho QUOTE: In place of a Clinton-era ban on building roads in roadless areas, the Bush administration proposes to give governors the lead in seeking roadless protections.	New York Times
Jul 01, 2004	IRS Toughens Scrutiny of Land Gifts QUOTE: The Internal Revenue Service announced that it is cracking down on improper tax deductions taken by people who give real estate and cash to environmental groups, warning that taxpayers could face penalties and charities could lose their tax-exempt status.	Washington Post
Apr 29, 2004	Hatchery Salmon to Count as Wildlife QUOTE: The Bush administration has decided to count hatchery-bred fish...when it decides whether stream-bred wild salmon are entitled to protection under the Endangered Species Act....Six of the world's leading experts on salmon ecology complained last month in the journal Science that fish produced in hatcheries cannot be counted on to save wild salmon.	Washington Post
Jan 22, 2004	Making Way for Designer Insects QUOTE: Designer insects offer both unprecedented social benefits and potential environmental and health risks....[some-Ed.] say that the effects of this genetic engineering are impossible to predict and represent a serious potential health and safety hazard.	Washington Post
Sep 01, 2003	Dirty Secrets: No president has gone after the nation's environmental laws with the same fury as George W. Bush -- and none has been so adept at staying under the radar. QUOTE: ...while George W. Bush gets low marks on the environment from a majority of Americans, few fully appreciate the scope and fury of this administration's anti-environmental agenda.	Mother Jones
Apr 09, 2003	Battle Lines Drawn Over Proposal for Mine Near Death Valley Park QUOTE: National Park Service officials … say the open-pit mine … would impinge on bighorn sheep habitat, poison the valley's groundwater and indelibly scar a landscape sacred to the Indians.	Los Angeles Times
Apr 03, 2003	Ruling on Endangered Species Upheld: Appeals Court Rejects Request From California Developer QUOTE: A federal appeals court upheld a key portion of the Endangered Species Act this week, rejecting a bid by a California real estate developer to complete a project that would jeopardize an endangered species of toad.	Washington Post
Apr 01, 2003	The Empty Ocean QUOTE: In this book The Empty Oceans,Richard Ellis documents the depletion and extinction of marine life and the possible ways of saving them.	Island Press
Feb 19, 2003	If Trees Are Family, an Oil Pipeline Is Ungodly QUOTE: Oil companies and government officials say...a new oil pipeline, which will run near this tiny village in the mountainous Russian region of Buryatiya...is important...a small group of villagers in this settlement...practice Buryat shamanism, a set of beliefs that centers around a reverence for nature.	New York Times
Jan 10, 2003	U.S. Hints It Will Sue EU Over Altered Crops: Complaint About Food Ban Would Go to WTO QUOTE: ...anti-biotech rules in Europe are a response to unreasonable public fears, not to meaningful scientific research, and therefore represent trade discrimination against U.S. agricultural products.	Washington Post
Jan 09, 2003	Toxic ammo is tested in fish areas: U.S. Navy Uses Depleted Uranium in Coast Waters; Activists May Go to Court QUOTE: "No major studies apparently have been done on the effects of such weapons in the ocean. Where depleted uranium munitions have been used in combat on land, such as in Iraq during the Gulf War, or in tests on land, such as Vieques island in Puerto Rico, they not only give off relatively small amounts of radiation, but produce toxic dust that can enter the food chain."	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Nov 12, 2002	California Coast, Now Online QUOTE: The images help Coastal Commission enforcement staff identify illicit activity....The project has already prompted concern from coastal owners who don't want their backyards to be photographed.	Wired
Nov 01, 2002	Judge Halts Utah Oil Project: Environmentalists to Argue Against Exploring Region QUOTE: Robertson agreed with environmental groups that brought the suit that the use of huge seismic "thumper trucks" to search for oil and gas reserves would irreparably harm the fragile soils, plants and animals...	Washington Post
Oct 07, 2002	The true cost of a shrimp sandwich QUOTE: ...some environmentalists claim shrimp farms have destroyed millions of acres of coastal cactus and mangrove forests, and are turning many of the world's estuaries into a prawn cocktail of chemicals.	Independent News (UK)
Oct 07, 2002	Wildlife smugglers target Indian animals QUOTE: But environmentalist groups say that India's location - midway between the Middle East and China - make it a more convenient shopping spot for those looking for wildlife products. Indeed, India is a victim of its own success.
Sep 01, 2002	Blue Revolution: Fish farming is rapidly becoming a bigger enterprise than beef ranching. Critics contend it is also destroying land along coasts and hastening the demise of wild fish QUOTE: For some farmed marine species, as many as five pounds of wild fish are needed for one pound of growth.	Discover Magazine
Aug 30, 2002	Plan to Store Water Below Desert Gains: Hydrology: The MWD must now approve the $1-billion proposal, which would create one of the state's largest storage facilities QUOTE: The proposed project has been criticized by environmentalists and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) as a danger to the aquifer and the fragile desert ecology it supports. An arcane disagreement exists among scientists about how quickly the aquifer will be recharged by mountain rainfall.	Los Angeles Times
Jul 16, 2002	Navy Cleared to Use a Sonar Despite Fears of Injuring Whales QUOTE: The Navy won approval yesterday to deploy two ships that use controversial low-frequency sonar...despite continuing questions about whether the system's loud blasts will injure whales and other ocean mammals.	Washington Post
Jun 12, 2002	Environmentalists Win Bombing Lawsuit QUOTE: ...the F.B.I. and Oakland police had violated their civil rights and First Amendment rights by defaming them and casting a pall over their plans to protest against logging	New York Times
Mar 15, 2002	ANWR and Peas QUOTE: The real reason conservatives want to drill in ANWR is the same reason they want to keep snowmobiles roaring through Yellowstone: sheer symbolism.	New York Times
Jan 15, 2002	White House Relaxes Rules On Protection of Wetlands: Two Agencies Criticized Revision of Permit Laws QUOTE: The changes announced yesterday by the Army Corps of Engineers -- with approval from the White House -- will make it somewhat easier for developers, mining companies and others to qualify for nearly automatic "general permits" to dredge and fill wetlands.	Washington Post
Nov 08, 2001	Court Overturns Jury Award in '89 Exxon Valdez Spill QUOTE: ...the $5.3 billion in punitive damages the Exxon Corporation was ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the worst in the nation's history, was excessive....the Supreme Court set a ratio of about four to one in punitive awards to actual harm...	New York Times
Oct 31, 2001	U.S. Accuses the Japanese of Inflexibility On Trade Talks QUOTE: Japanese officials acknowledge that they have so far refused to compromise on farm goods....both the United States and the European Union had core trade positions that they were unwilling to compromise ahead of the trade summit meeting.	New York Times
Jul 07, 2001	German Loggers to Leave 'African Eden' Untouched QUOTE: ...a German logging company said yesterday that it had given up its lease on a tract of swamp-fringed rain forest in the Congo Republic.	New York Times
Jul 06, 2001	Farmers Force Open Canal in Fight with U.S. Over Water QUOTE: ...federal officials asked for help today from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States marshals after farmers, angry about being cut off from irrigation water...	New York Times
May 21, 2001	Myth of the Martyred Mapmaker: Fired Contractor Turned Into Hero QUOTE: ...his dismissal was less about political interference than bureaucratic panic, and that it would have gone unnoticed if environmentalists hadn't been so eager for ammunition to use against the Arctic drilling plan...	Washington Post
May 11, 2001	Judge Bars New Forest Rules, Citing Potential Local Harm QUOTE: A federal judge in Idaho blocked the Clinton administration's forest-protection plan today...cause "irreparable long-term harm" to local communities.	New York Times
May 11, 2001	Bush Asks Congress to Grant Him a 'Fast Track' in Trade Talks QUOTE:	New York Times

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