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* WILD ALERT
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In her Senate confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary, Gale Norton
backpeddled on a number of her more extreme anti-environmental positions.
However she continued to press for opening up the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge to oil drilling.  Take action today: go to
http://www.wilderness.org/eyewash/norton.htm and ask your Senators to vote
against her confirmation -- she's just too extreme.

CONFIRMATION CONVERSION OR SMOKE SCREEN?
Gale Norton attempt to position herself as a moderate in her confirmation
hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which
wrapped up this past Friday.

She backpeddled on her more controversial positions, including her
opposition to the Endangered Species Act and the Surface Mining Act, and
her support for corporate "right to pollute."  She sidestepped a host of
other issues, for example, wilderness water rights, Wilderness Study Area
(WSA) management, and livestock grazing.

SUPPORT FOR ARCTIC OIL DRILLING REMAINS
Nevertheless, she embraced oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.  Moreover, she pledged to review numerous Clinton Administration
administrative decisions, for example, national monument designations,
mining regulations, and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wilderness
inventories in Alaska.

TAKE ACTION
The Senate Energy Committee is expected to act on her nomination as early
as Tuesday morning (Jan. 23), with a full Senate vote possibly the next
day.  It's important to continue voicing our strong concerns about the
extreme anti-environmental agenda that she holds, despite her partial
confirmation conversion.

Please contact your Senators, again if you have already, at
http://www.wilderness.org/eyewash.norton.htm and ask them to vote AGAINST
Gale Norton's nomination for Interior Secretary.  She's just too extreme
for such a sensitive land stewardship post.

Or call your Senators at (202) 224-3121.  (Look up your Senators at
http://www.senate.gov)
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MORE INFORMATION
What Gale Norton *didn't* say in her confirmation hearing:
http://www.wilderness.org/newsroom/norton_011901.htm

Summary and details from her hearing:
http://www.wilderness.org/eyewash/norton_hearing.htm

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