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New Rules Project - Environment - U.S. Domestic Phaseout of CFCs
Work! Contact Us In 1989 the U.S. Congress enacted a tax on eight ozone depleting chemicals (ODC's) as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It extended this tax to 12 additional chemicals and raised the tax on the original 8 chemicals in the National Energy Policy Act of 1992. The Clean Air Act (Title VI) established caps on most CFC's as ...
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Land Use/Sustainability
Move - Nov 22, 2005: Access a release and link to the report and an executive summary (click here). House Barely Passes Budget Reconciliation Bill - Nov 17, 2005: Access the roll call vote for H.R. 4241 (click here). Access legislative details for H.R. 4241 (click here). Access legislative details for S. 1932 (click here). Access an Earthjustice release ( ...
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forest sell-off deadline
A provision in the Fiscal Year 2007 budget from the Bush White House proposes to sell off chunks of the national forests to fund rural ... proposed selling off national parks. He and Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) also inserted language in a budget reconciliation bill that would have made it easier for mining companies to buy and develop mineral claims ...
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Arctic Drilling Isn't Answer to Fuel Crisis, Paula Coyne
Since the 1950s, the American public has opposed drilling in the refuge. Hiding the drilling provision in a budget reconciliation bill does not serve the public interest. 3. Drilling would only distract Congress and the American people from the reality of our nation's energy crisis. We need new, smarter kinds of energy sources, such as ...
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Don't Sell the Park, Jim DiPeso
America's greatest conservation president. The House Resources Committee chairman, who will have a key role in drafting budget reconciliation legislation this fall, also has broached the idea of selling 15 other national parks [Metro, Sept. 27]. Mr. Pombo's part in the budget legislation is to find $2.4 billion in revenue. He wants to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
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RE: Reject plans to privatize our national lands!
Late last year the House approved in the budget reconciliation bill a scheme to sell millions of acres out of public ownership and into the ... leaders, from ranchers and business people, was such that the provision was scrapped before the budget resolution was approved. The President's land disposal scheme is equally objectionable and warrants the same ...
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RE: Reject plans to privatize our national lands!
Late last year the House approved in the budget reconciliation bill a scheme to sell millions of acres out of public ownership and into the ... leaders, from ranchers and business people, was such that the provision was scrapped before the budget resolution was approved. The President's land disposal scheme is equally objectionable and warrants the same ...
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ACTION ALERT: Save Nutrition & Conservation Funding in October Call Sen. Norm Coleman by Thursday, Oct. 6
Schultz, LSP’s Policy Program Director, at marks@landstewardshipproject.org. Background Included in the ag budget are not only the commodity crop subsidies (primarily for the five favored crops of cotton, ... the war in Iraq and rebuilding the Gulf Coast following the hurricanes. Nonetheless, it appears budget reconciliation will go forward, which means members of Congress will need to decide where to ...
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Hearing on Hard Rock Mining
II November 3, 2005 An Assault on America’s Public Lands The Hardrock Mining Provisions of the Resources Committee’s Budget Reconciliation Package Mr. Speaker. Among the many egregious provisions of the ... heritage of almost unparalleled proportions. Included in these recommendations to be considered by the House Budget Committee is the worst kind of “sham reform” of the Mining Law of 1872 that has ...
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This Land Is Still Our Land (Preservation Magazine) | The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees
Richard Pombo (R-CA), included 15 national parks in a list of assets for the Budget Reconciliation Proposal that could be sold to raise revenue. When the suggestion was leaked it disappeared ... or other concealed purposes instead of bona fide mining. That provision was subsequently dropped from the budget bill, but this idea, too, is bound to raise its ugly head again. The rogue committee ...
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