The White House and the Whales
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President Bush has exempted the Navy from environmental laws designed to protect whales from potentially harmful sonar.
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ADDS 12 grafs with New Jersey information on puppy, no pickup; ADDS photo pursuing tag. AP Photo pursuing aaafonjpgeb. WASHINGTON  _ A new presidential pooch, bred in New Jersey, will soon be roaming the halls of the White House.
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President Bush is creating a White House committee to oversee the nation's ocean policies, with plans to improve research, better manage fisheries and regulate pollution from boats.
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Conditions are less than ideal, let us say, for President George W. Bush's last state of the union speech, to be delivered today. This is an administration that had precious little to boast about even before the economy began to nose-dive - a calamity that may not yet be plain in the figures but was certified by the Federal Reserve's dramatic interest rate cut last week. One wonders, how much worse can things get for this White House?
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The White House proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish, outraging environmentalists.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.
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Scientists are tracking the oceanâs biggest whales to figure out how exactly they get enough food to build their giant bodies.
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Humpback whales are safe Â at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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President Bush is creating a White House committee to oversee the nation's ocean policies, with plans to improve research, manage fisheries better and regulate pollution caused by boats.
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Rescuers were encouraged by the progress two lost whales have made toward their ocean home but were concerned about encounters the two might have with large ships as they near San Francisco Bay.
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While President Bush was in Australia last week, the White House completed the divvying-up of Karl Rove's sizable and important portfolio.
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The White House got a new resident Thursday with the arrival of Miss Beazley, the first lady's Scottish terrier puppy.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 17--Saving the whales is no job for amateurs.
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President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.
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Conservationists on Wednesday blasted President Bush's decision to exempt the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using high-power sonar in its training off Southern California Â a practice they say harms whales and other marine mammals.
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BANGKOK, Oct 14 (IPS) -  The great white shark, Irrawaddy dolphin, minke  whale and the ramin tree were among the big winners at the  endangered species sweepstakes of the Convention on International  Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as its 13th Conference of the  Parties drew to a close in the Thai capital on Thursday.