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From CNN: House suspends Alaska drilling push.
A solid phalanx of Republican moderates drove House GOP leaders to drop a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wilderness area to oil drilling as a sweeping budget bill headed toward a vote Thursday.A plan to allow states to lift a moratorium on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts was also axed. ...
The Senate has included ANWR drilling in its budget bill and GOP leaders are likely to push hard for the final House-Senate version of the bill to include it. ...
The decision on the Arctic refuge was a big setback for those who have tried for years to open a coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, to oil development. It was a victory for environmentalists, who have lobbied hard against drilling. President Bush has made drilling in the Alaska refuge one of his top energy priorities.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is posting letters critical of the GOP compromise here.
Posted by Forkum at November 10, 2005 04:04 PM
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