This item came from the Weekly Grist -- On-line environmental newsletter

Pam


Six GOP senators are throwing a wrench in the Bush administration's
plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil
drilling.  The six -- Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John
McCain of Arizona, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald
of Illinois, and Mike DeWine of Ohio -- announced last week that they
will oppose plans to attach to a massive budget bill a provision that
would open the refuge to oil and gas exploration.  The senators seem
to be on the same side of the issue as most Americans.  A new poll by
the Wilderness Society found that 62 percent of respondents opposed
drilling in ANWR, while only 30 percent supported it.  Even many
Republicans and Bush backers want to see the refuge protected, say
the pollsters.

straight to the source:  Anchorage Daily News, Liz Ruskin, 01 Feb 2003
<http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/2551994p-2603195c.html>

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