Katherine Hansen
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March 21, 2006
The Federal Appeals Court overturned a ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency Friday. The ruling under the Bush administration would have allowed coal burning plants to avoid installing new controls aimed at fighting emissions pollution if such installations would total more than 20 percent ...
March 21, 2006
The 2007 budget legislation proposed by Republican leaders with White House support is attempting to give oil companies access to drill in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a proposal that has been adamantly opposed by citizens and environmentalists alike. The move has been included in the budg...
March 20, 2006
On March 15 during the 72nd Meeting of the Sixth General Assembly members of the United Nations passed a vote to establish a new Human Rights Council to despite objections from the United States, Israel, Palau, and the Marshall Islands. The new council, which will replace the Geneva-based commission...
March 16, 2006
Early Thursday morning at the beginning of March workers on the BP Exploration began to hear a suspicious sound. That sound turned out to be the sixth largest oil spill to ever hit the North Slope of Alaska, dumping at least 21,000 gallons of crude oil into the Prudhoe Bay. The final amount of the...
March 14, 2006
The day that you find out that you are expecting your entire life changes. You are filled with excitement, questions, and maybe even a few fears. So you rely on whatever your health professionals tell you as well as the countless stories of labor and birth you hear from every woman within a fifty ...