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Tar Sands and Ocean Monuments

Tar Sands and Ocean Monuments

The New York Times and The Financial Times quote Susan Casey-Lefkowitz on the destructiveness of tar sands extraction... A New York Times editorial and a USA Today blog echoed Sarah Chasis's Switchboard posting on Bush's newly designated national monuments in the western Pacific Ocean; thanks to Phil Gutis, Sarah's blog was also published byThe Huffington Post... Despite Bush's recent conservation effort, Michael Oko reminds FoxNews.com of the harmful environmental legacy of the Bush administration... Robert Redford states his opposition to oil and gas drilling on KSL-TV, Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate... Noah Horowitz pushes for stricter TV efficiency standards in The New York Times Green Inc. blog... in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Michael Wall demands that the Maritime Administration clean up the fleet of retired ships that have been left to decay in Suisun Bay, CA.

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bushadministration, ghostfleet, marineprotectedareas, noahhorowitz, oildrilling, robertredford, sarahchasis, susancaseylefkowitz, tarsands

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