From Grist Online News Magazine


LAND SAKES!
The Bush administration yesterday endorsed an $82 billion overhaul of
farming legislation that would phase out subsidies and double
conservation spending.  The plan, proposed by Sen. Richard Lugar
(R-Ind.), would shift federal benefits away from big grain and cotton
growers and toward fruit, vegetable, and livestock farms, as well as
land-preservation efforts.  Earlier this month, the House voted
against an amendment to its farm bill that also would have reduced
subsidies and dramatically increased conservation spending.  In
other, less auspicious news from the White House yesterday, Bush
again called on the Senate to allow drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.  The plea, made during a speech to a gathering of
Sacramento business groups, marked the second time this month Bush
asked the Senate to open the Arctic Refuge in the name of national
security.

straight to the source: Washington Post, Associated Press, 18 Oct 2001
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12450-2001Oct18.html>

straight to the source: Planet Ark, Reuters, 18 Oct 2001
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/12864/story.htm>

do good: Take action to save the arctic refuge
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/dogood/climate.asp?source=daily#arctic>