President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly
radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was
challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other
environmental issues.  Reps. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Jay
Inslee (D-Wash.) introduced legislation supported by 172 other House
members to bar logging and road construction on much of the country's
national forest lands, backing the roadless rule that was drafted
under Clinton but is opposed by the current administration.  And
today, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.)
will introduce legislation to reinstate an expired corporate tax that
funneled more than $1 billion a year into the Superfund for
environmental cleanups.  Industry opposes the tax, and President Bush
has so far declined to seek its reauthorization.

straight to the source:  Washington Post, 06 Jun 2002
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only in Grist:  Yucky Mountain -- a cartoon by Suzy Becker
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