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04/09/2001
A Letter to
President Bush
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104774,00.html
04/09
The View From the Bush Administration; Condoleeza Rice explains why the U.S. turned its back on Kyoto
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104771,00.html
04/09
Cool and Clean; Iceland may eliminate use of fossil fuels
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104769,00.html
04/09
Sci-fi Solutions
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104768,00.html
04/09
Are you Eco-Conscious?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104757,00.html
04/09
A Climate Of Despair
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104596,00.html
04/09
Life In The Greenhouse
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,104617,00.html
04/08
U.S. to unveil new climate proposal to replace Kyoto
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010408a1.htm
04/08
US to propose global warming alternative
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/environment/2001/04/item20010407233311_1.htm
04/08
Clashing images of the Arctic refuge
http://msnbc.com/news/553588.asp
04/08
Natural gas fix is not in arctic refuge
http://www.msnbc.com/news/554165.asp?cp1=1
04/08
New Zealand cabinet minister attacks United States and its 'lackey' Australia
http://www.southam.com/ottawacitizen/newsnow/cpfs/world/010407/w040782.html
04/07
Senate Budget Vote
Rebuffs Bush on Global Warming
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52290-2001Apr7.html
04/07
Bush opens up Rockies to energy explorers
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-111209,00.html
04/06
National Wildlife Federation Calls On President Bush To End
War On Environment, Find Common Ground For Conservation Progress
http://nwf.org/news/whitmanatannualmeeting.html
04/06
Whitman Calls for Patience on Environmental Policies
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/07/politics/07WHIT.html
04/06
Climate change causes Atlantic rift
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1264000/1264386.stm
04/06
Hidden Camera Exposes Anti-Environmental Junkets for Judges for Judges
http://www.ems.org/advisories/judge_junkets.html
04/06
Drilling Studied in Off-Limits Areas of Rockies
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/06/politics/06DRIL.html
04/06/01
Greens urge boycott
of US firms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,469241,00.html
04/06/01
Europe should now
push Kyoto
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,469687,00.html
04/06/01
The UN's top climatologists reject the US President's claim that scientists are divided over global warming
http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999609
04/06/01
Sierra Club Blasts Senate For Stripping Funds From Environmental Protection
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=3987
04/06/01
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04062001/reu_greens_42912.asp
04/06/01
Carbon dioxide levels
will double by 2050, experts forecast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,469225,00.html
04/06/01
League of Conservation Voters applauds bipartisan budget win in climate change fight
http://lcv.org/news/040601_%20budget.html
04/06/01
Climate right to
fight Bush, says US Green
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/04/06/FFXFKS3E5LC.html
04/06/01
Bush Expected to Cut
Research
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/06/MN21892.DTL
04/06/01
Bush Budget Plan May Fan the Fire Over His Priorities http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010406/t000029380.html
04/05/01
What sort of energy crisis?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40973-2001Apr4.html
04/05/01
Bush may pull back energy efficiency standards
http://www.nrdc.org/news/newsDetails.asp?nID=326
04/05
NRDC Denounces Budget Resolution Slashing Environmental Funding
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressReleases/010405.asp
04/05/01
Report: Draft Recommends U.S. Open Land to Drilling
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010405/pl/bush_energy_dc.html
04/05/01
Bush's Former Oil
Company Threatens Endangered Sea Turtles in Costa Rica: 800 turtle scientists
issue plea
http://www.cccturtle.org/n_bushoil.htm
04/05
UK to get 18 wind farms
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1261000/1261759.stm
04/05/01
Climate protest floods White House
http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/enalerts/986511977/index_html
4/5/01
Norton pushes Alaskan drilling, pipelines
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04052001/reu_drill_42904.asp
04/05/01
Norton review of Ironwood is not wanted
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/opinion/4_5_01op.html
04/05/01
Interior’s draft report calls for oil drilling on millions of acres of national lands
http://www.wilderness.org/newsroom/briefing040501.htm
04/05/01
NRDC denounces budget resolution slashing environmental funding
http://enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=3978
04/05/01
Environmental organizations defeat coal industry, global warming SLAPP suit federal judge dismisses coal industry suit attempting to prevent debate over global warming
http://www.foe.org/act/vt.html
04/05/01
EU Will Ratify Kyoto Protocol Despite U.S. Withdrawal
http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/enheadlines/986509719/index_html
4/5/01
Bush may pull back energy standards
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04052001/ap_energy_42902.asp
4/5/01
Greenpeace warns U.S. giants of consumer ‘consequences’ over Kyoto
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010405/1/m3vw.html
04/05/01
Corporations outgun environmentalists in politics of the U.S. West
http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/enheadlines/986508506/index_html
4/5/01
Canada poised to reject Kyoto pact, much depends on U.S.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010405/5037536.html
04/05/01
California Wind Farms Kept from Generating Power for Public Use
http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/enheadlines/986508757/index_html
04/05/01
Amphibian populations in decline
http://www.nature.com/nature/links/010405/010405-1.html
04/05/01
Critics knock naming of oil tanker Condoleeza
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/05/MN222557.DTL
4/5/01
Greenpeace urges U.S. businesses to reject Bush reversal on global warming
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/press_releases/01_04_05text.htm
04/05/01
EU says U.S. surprised by anger over climate treaty
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010405/pl/environment_eu_dc_9.html
04/05/01
Canada leader calls Bush reckless, ignorant
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=986441755569&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&col=968793972154
04/05
Public lands topic of drilling draft?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/555175.asp
04/05/01
Frog decline 'due to
global warming'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4165374,00.html
4/5/01
EPA chief endures critique from environmentalists
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04052001/krt_whitman_42896.asp
04/05/01
Energy efficiency programs are set for Bush budget cut
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/politics/05BUDG.html?ex=987476906&ei=1&en=66c9ce1aee254b68
04/05/01
Climate change blamed for Okinawa coral death
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20010405rh.htm
04/05/01
Direct talks open
with U.S. over dropping of Kyoto Protocol
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010405a8.htm
4/4/01
Sierra Club, AFL-CIO and Members of Congress Blast President Bush's Latest Action Against Environment, Workers
http://lists.sierraclub.org/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0104&L=ce-scnews-releases&D=1&T=0&H=1&O=D&P=682
4/4/01
Interior Dept. plan would open lands for drilling
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-04-05-energydrilling.htm
04/04
U.S. Rebuffs European Plea Not to Abandon Climate Pact
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/science/04WARM.html
4/4/01
U.S. rebuffs European plea not to abandon climate pact
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/science/04WARM.html
4/4/01
Bush stance on Alaska refuge’s natural gas puzzles some
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04042001/reu_anwr_42888.asp
4/4/01
Interior Department plan would open lands for drilling
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-04-05-energydrilling.htm
4/4/01
EU Can't Budge Bush on Warming; Envoys' plea for treaty rejected at EPA, State Department
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/04/MN118938.DTL
4/4/01
EU says Bush wrong over global warming deal
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/04/04/international0934EDT0546.DTL
4/4/01
Sierra Club, AFL-CIO and Members of Congress Blast President
Bush’s Latest Action Against Environment, Workers
http://lists.sierraclub.org/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0104&L=ce-scnews-releases&D=1&T=0&H=1&O=D&P=682
4/4/01
Leading Environmental Group calls on Whitman to Step Down
http://www.foe.org/act/whitman.html
4/4/01
‘Endangered parks’ list aimed at Bush
http://msnbc.com/news/540531.asp
4/4/01
French leader blasts U.S. unilateral approach to foreign policy
http://www.southam.com/ottawacitizen/newsnow/cpfs/world/010404/w0404134.html
4/4/01
Brussels to press for fresh round of climate talks
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010404001564&query=Brussels+to+press
4/4/01
Opposing energy forces fight for president’s ear
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010404001538&query=Opposing+energy+forces
04/04/01
The great divide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,468261,00.html
4/4/01
New Forest Service Data Shows Overwhelming Support for Protecting Our Last Wild Forests
http://lists.sierraclub.org/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0104&L=ce-scnews-releases&D=1&T=0&H=1&O=D&P=541
04/03/01
U.S. turns down European pitch for climate pact; envoys in Washington to urge Bush to reconsider stand
http://www.msnbc.com/news/553972.asp?cp1=1
04/03/01
Finnish ministers
slam "selfish and irresponsible decision"
http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20010403IE4&pvm=20010403
04/03/01
'Flood Bush' email stalls White House server
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,468024,00.html
04/02/01
Bush budget won’t reflect energy crisis
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010402/pl/energy_bush_dc_1.html
04/02/01
What has America done to deserve the Arsenic President?
http://www.iht.com/articles/15421.html
04/02/01
What next on warming?
http://www.iht.com/articles/15429.html
04/01
Bush Angers Europe by Eroding Pact on Warming
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/world/01GERM.html
03/2001
Sierra Club Blasts Murkowski Bill
http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/environmental_currents/march_2001.asp
03/2001
We were robbed
http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/ads/0103robbed_ad.asp
03/31/01
Europe backs Kyoto accord
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1252000/1252556.stm
03/31
Hemisphere Conference Ends in Discord on Global Warming
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/31/science/31WARM.html
03/31/01
Stay with climate protocol, Mori warns U.S. in letter
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010331a3.htm
03/31/01
Pressure mounts on U.S. over Kyoto
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1252000/1252556.stm
03/30/01
Bush rejects global warming treaty
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03302001/ap_bush_42805.asp
03/30/01
World criticizes Bush for changing mind on CO2
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=414
03/30/01
Bush’s carbon dioxide flip-flop came through staffer who had lobbied for car-exhaust firm
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_032901.htm
03/30/01
Bush spark’s mild grumbling from some conservatives
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010330/pl/bush_grumbling_dc_1.html
03/30/01
Bush criticized for global warming
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010330/18/global-warming-reax
03/30/01
U.S. Puts Energy Needs Before Ecology
http://www.iht.com/articles/15265.html
03/30/01
Clinton climate change czar slams Bush
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03302001/reu_clintonclimate_42798.asp
3/30/01
Scientist Fired for Exposing Alaska Oil Risks
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=416
03/29/01
Bush move on climate pact regrettable
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03292001/reu_bush_42780.asp
03/29/01
Facing Obstacles on Arctic Oil, Bush Says He'll Look Elsewhere
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/politics/30BUSH.html?searchpv=site01
03/29
U.S. Going Empty-Handed to Meeting on Global Warming
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/science/29WARM.html
3/29/01
German concern over U.S. climate policy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1250000/1250069.stm
3/29/01
U.S. Abandonment of climate pact sparks outcry
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010329/ts/environment_eu_dc_2.html
3/29/01
U.S. facing climate isolation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1249000/1249446.stm
3/29/01
Bush firm with allies on climate pact
http://msnbc.com/news/551593.asp
03/29/01
President’s bipartisan words hollow
3/29/01
Bush fuels environmentalists’ ire
http://www.msnbc.com/news/551194.asp
3/29/01
Bush emissions policies upsetting allies abroad, U.S. will skip talks on global warming
03/29/01
Lieberman calls for environmental probe
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03292001/upi_lieberman_42785.asp
3/29/01
U.S. upsets allies on ecology pact
http://www.iht.com/articles/15131.html
03/29/01
Europe reacts with disgust to Bush’s ‘scandalous’ repudiation of Kyoto treat
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0329-01.htm
03/29/01
Special interests getting their way on environment
http://www.democrats.org/news/releases/rel032901.html
03/29/01
Europe warms Bush on global warming
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010329/11/europe-us-global-warming
3/28/01
Japan dismayed by Bush’s stance on global warming accord
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5445-2001Mar28.html
3/28/01
Bush moves on Clinton monuments
http://msnbc.com/news/547638.asp
3/28/01
Bush seeks alternative to climate pact; president says ‘whole world’ needs to be included
http://msnbc.com/news/550854.asp
3/28/01
Greens say Bush has killed U.S. roll in Kyoto climate pact
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03282001/reu_climatekiller_42763.asp
3/28/01
The world can’t wait for another climate treaty
http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/010328.html
3/28/01
U.S. aims to pull out of warming treaty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2354-2001Mar27.html
3/27/01
A Reversal on Public Access to Chemical Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/politics/27ACCI.html?pagewanted=all
03/27
Letter from Environmental Defense Executive Director Fred Krupp to Frederick L. Webber, President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/pubs/Filings/ltr_pbs.html
03/27/01
To Europeans Worried by America Policies, He’s ‘Bully Bush’
http://www.iht.com/articles/14739.html
3/27/01
Bush heads north to Michigan as poll numbers head south
http://www.democrats.org/news/releases/rel032701.html
3/26/01
A reversal on public access to chemical data
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/politics/27ACCI.html?pagewanted=all
3/26/01
Whitman to Bush: global warming is serious issue
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm
3/25/01
Coal scores with wager on Bush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53886-2001Mar24.html
03/25/01
A new role for Greens: Public Enemy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/weekinreview/25KAHN.html?searchpv=site01
03/24/01
Alps permafrost melting
http://earthfiles.com/earth222.htm
3/24/01
A ‘dirty’ energy policy
http://www.latimes.com/cgi-bin/slwebcli?DBLIST=lt01&DOCNUM=23863&TEMPLATE=9002&DBPUB=20010324pKaELHoP&QDesc=A%20%27Dirty%27%20Energy%20Policy
03/24/01
US, EU head for global warming clash
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010324000629&quer
03/23/01
Texas parks loaded with toxins
http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/03/03232001/toxins_42652.asp
03/23/01
Bush on an almost one-a-day anti-environment campaign
http://www.democrats.org/news/releases/rel032301a.html
03/23/01
European Union tells Bush climate is key to their relationship
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03232001/reu_ties_42680.asp
03/22/01
Interior secretary suspends mining rules
http://www.enn.com/enn-subsciber-news-archive/2001/03/03222001/krt_norton_42668.asp
03/22/01
Democrats hammer Bush on environment
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/democrats010322.html
03/21/01
Arsenic and old rules; Bush rolls back Clinton arsenic standards
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/bush_arsenic010321.html
3/23/01
Report blasts oil companies, Enviros say track record makes case against ANWR drilling
http://co001.campusmotor.com/shell_story_news.html?ID=1047
03/22/01
League of Conservation Voters criticizes Bush Administration delay of arsenic in drinking water
http://lcv.org/news/032001_arsenic.html
03/21/01
Earth Last! Bush is using false alarmism to plunder the environment and pay his donors
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/03/sobel-l-03-21.html
03/21/01
Infernal Emissions
http://www.epn.org/ideacentral/environment.html
3/20/01
Sierra Club Blasts Decision to Withdraw Protections for Drinking Water
http://www.sierraclub.org/cleanwater/waterquality/arsenic_release.asp
03/20
More Than 500 Scientists Call on White House to Halt Plans to Drill in Arctic Wildlife Refuge
http://www.defenders.org/releases/pr2001/pr032001.html
03/18
Industry Has Powerful Allies on Drilling Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/politics/18ENER.html
03/16/01
Lies, Damn Lies, and Bush’s statistics
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/03/green-j-03-16.html
03/15/01
U.S. must face carbon problem
http://www.worldwildlife.org/news/headline.cfm?newsid=251
03/15/01
Satellite pictures show greenhouse effect
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03152001/upi_greenhouse_42528.asp
03/14/01
Clouding the Air? Democrats assail Bush over emissions policy pledge
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/bush010314_emissions.html
03/14/01
Bush makes mistake on CO2
http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/010314.html
03/10/01
Shattering the greenhouse; we have the technology to halt global climate change, so let’s use it
http://www.newscientist.com/global/global.jsp?id=22811400
03/08/01
Remarks as Prepared
for Delivery by he Hon. Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior National
Environmental Policy Institute Summit Marriott Metro Center, Washington, DC
http://www.doi.gov/news/010308.html
02/19/01
Scientists warn global warming could catastrophically change the planetary processes that make the Earth habitable
http://www.newscientist.com/global/global.jsp?id=ns9999443
02/15/01
Cash, Relationships
Help Explain Bush Administration’s Hands-Off Policy in California Electricity
Crisis
http://www.citizen.org/Press/pr-cmep107.htm
11/12/2000
Scientists claim nothing will stop climate change
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/11/12/stifgneur01006.html
11/12/2000
Update on increase UV radiation and amphibian decline
http://earthfiles.com/earth191.htm
06/09/2000
Passage into the Arctic has everything but ice
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0009/06/text/world9.html
05/08/2000
Rx for a Planetary Fever
http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/12/gelbspan-r.html
04/20/2000
Severe Arctic ozone loss and deep ocean warming
http://earthfiles.com/earth130.htm
ExxonMobil emerges as major funder of “greenhouse skeptics”
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3645&method=full
The Effects of Global Warming
http://www.time.com/time/2001/globalwarming/splash.html