Appeals panel rules that the Interior Department didn’t adequately analyze a Bush administration plan to auction off leases in the Arctic seas-
Drilling off Alaska can’t proceed without further environmental review. By James Oliphant and Kim Murphy. LA Times.
An off-shore oil spill into the Arctic Ocean would be a terrible disaster.
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Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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