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Bush Administration Now Citing Hurricanes as Excuse to Push for Oil and Gas Drilling in Coastal Waters and ANWR

"Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton said Tuesday that after the two destructive gulf hurricanes that battered the nation's energy heartland, the Bush administration would intensify its push to expand energy development on public lands including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in the nation's coastal waters." - excerpt from the New York Times article, free registration required, at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/politics/28norton.html

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