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- Bureau of Land Management staffers must now prepare a "statement of adverse energy impact" whenever they take an action that gets in the way of drilling or mining.
- Having failed to get congressional approval for plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration, Bush opened 8.8 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve and more than 9 million acres in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's North Slope.
- When EPA staffers slammed plans for natural-gas drilling in Wyoming's Powder River Basin on the grounds that it would cause severe air and water pollution and endanger the nation's last herds of plains elk, deputy secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles tried to suppress the report saying, "Those comments can't go out."
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