Politics, Gas Fuel Battle Over New Mexico Forest
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A Texas energy company may get rights to drill in a pristine swathe of a New Mexico national forest after a White House task force intervened on its behalf, a move that has become a hot issue in the battleground state before next week's presidential election.
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By Tim Thornton tim.thornton@roanoke.com 381-1669  The proposed sale of national forest land, which died amid a national storm of criticism last year, has been resurrected in President Bush's 2008 budget proposal.
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SANTA FE, NM -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is in New Mexico, where he will spend the next two days prepping for Wednesday&#39;s debate.
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The campaign for Colorado's open Senate seat has quickly turned ugly since last month's primary, with TV attack ads focusing on an unusual issue for both Republican Peter Coors and Democrat Ken Salazar: the environment.
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Forest rules issued this week by the Bush administration are just the latest chapter in a decades-long debate over how to manage millions of acres of public land.
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The Bush administration's rejection of state efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions touched off a flurry of counterattacks Thursday. Democrats in Congress launched an investigation. Governors led by California's Arnold Schwarzenegger said they would sue, and environmental groups demanded to see the government's rationale for its decision.
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Politics continue to complicate energy policy.
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The rival campaign bandwagons of President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry pulled into New Mexico, as both candidates sought to corral undecided voters in this hotly-contested western state.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 18--Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the Bush administration's proposal to sell off portions of national forests is that it evidently is going nowhere -- again.   That sounds about right.
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By Associated Press  LOGAN -- Cache County is fighting with the U.S. Forest Service over whether it can claim to own nearly every mile of road on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.
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Anyone wondering why President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have been talking up hunting and fishing in recent days need look no further than two anti-logging petitions widely circulated by a sportsmen's association in Alaska.
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SHOREHAM, Vermont  - Vermont officials are going   to court and activists are threatening a boycott of the world's   largest forest products company as a battle intensifies over a   plan to burn old tires as fuel in New York state.
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Last August, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry pledged to boost funding for the national park system by $600 million a year by raising fees on mining companies. The National Mining Association immediately denounced the proposal, saying it would cost Nevada, a key battleground state, 44,000 jobs.
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By Karl Terry, The Portales News-Tribune, N.M.  Feb. 1--A bill protecting wildland firefighters from criminal prosecution has been introduced in the New Mexico Legislature by Rep. Keith Gardner R-Roswell.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Grijalva may have big say as member of House panel  Southern Arizona's congressional representatives say they will do what they can to stop mining at Rosemont Ranch in the Santa Rita Mountains.