Senator rebuffs academy over Arctic oil

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A report urging that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge not be opened to oil drilling has been dismissed by Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska (who favors drilling) as just another effort by opponents to block the drilling. The report was produced by a panel chaired by Gordon Orians, emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Washington, who says that any drilling will inevitably have enviornmental effects, many of which are unpredictable due to a lack of data. Destruction of local cultures have also affected indigenous peoples in areas where drilling has taken place in the Arctic, although those people have benefited from some improvement in health care and other services.

Administration of Conservation Programs, Land, mineral, wildlife conservation, Alaska, Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions, Wildlife Protection Programs, Wildlife Refuges, Energy policy, Environmental aspects, Political aspects, Oil fields, Environmental policy, Wildlife conservation, Nature reserves, Natural areas, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, Stevens, Ted, Natural resource policy, Orians, Gordon

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Bush settles on technical innovator to head up NASA

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U.S. President George W. Bush is planning to select Michael Griffin, an engineer and physicist who builds planetary spacecraft, as NASA's 11th administrator. Michael Griffin is known for his technical know-how and his willingness to question old ways of doing business and his nomination has received immediate praise from scientists and politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Space Research and Technology, Natl Aeronautics & Space Admin, Science, Space & Tech-Total Govt, Laws, regulations and rules, Bush, George W., United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Griffin, Michael, Space policy, Space programs

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US budget yields scant research rises

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Important US science agencies held on to slim gains in November 2005 as Congress approved 2006's budget. However, they might lose these rises and more in an across-the-board 2006 spending cut to help pay for hurricane relief in the southern US and for the ongoing war in Iraq.

Government expenditures, Research & Development, Scientific Research and Development Services, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Research & Development NEC, Labor Distribution by Employer, Disaster Aid, Disaster Relief & Insurance, Research institutes, Statistics, Science and technology policy, United States. Congress, Disaster relief, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, Government finance

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