| Sierra Club |
| Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from Oil and Gas Drilling. |
Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) sought to remove a provision that
allows drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge from HR 6 - the misguided National Energy Policy Act. Despite
continued opposition to drilling in the Arctic Refuge from the American
people, the House leadership pressed the controversial issue to a vote.
The vote failed.
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| Friends Committee on National Legislation |
| Preventing Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
Proposed by Rep. Markey (MA), that would have
deleted language in the energy bill allowing oil and gas exploration in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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| Public Citizen Congress Watch |
| Block Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). |
On Agreeing to the Amendment.
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| League of Conservation Voters |
| Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
The protection of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is among the
highest priorities for the national environmental community. Nowhere
else on our continent is the complete range of arctic and sub-arctic
landscapes protected in one unbroken chain, and no other conservation
area in the circumpolar north has such abundant and diverse wildlife,
including rare musk oxen, polar bears, grizzlies, wolves, millions of
migratory birds, and more than 120,000 caribou. The refuge's 1.5
million-acre coastal plain has been called "America's Serengeti."
The Bush Administration made drilling in the Arctic Refuge a
cornerstone of its national energy strategy, which reached its final
form in H.R. 6, the House energy bill. On April 20, 2005, Congressman
Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-CT) offered an
amendment to strike the Arctic drilling provision from the bill. The
amendment failed.
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| American Conservative Union |
| ANWR Leasing. |
Energy Policy. HR 6. The House rejected an amendment that would have prevented leases for oil and gas exploration in a small portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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| U.S. Public Interest Research Group |
| Arctic Refuge/Stop Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
The House energy bill (H.R. 6) included several provisions to increase oil and
gas drilling, including one to allow oil and gas development in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America's last wild places. Arctic champions Reps. Ed
Markey (D-MA) and Nancy Johnson (R-CT) offered
an amendment stripping the Arctic Refuge drilling
language out of the House energy bill, keeping the
coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge off limits to oil and gas drilling. The amendment failed.
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| Republican Liberty Caucus (Economic Liberty) |
| ANWR Drilling. |
Strike a proposal allowing oil exploration in Alaska reserves.
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| Citizens Against Government Waste |
| Energy Policy ANWR Leasing. |
The House rejected the amendment offered by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to prevent oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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| The John Birch Society |
| Alaskan Drilling. |
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) offered an amendment to delete language in the energy policy bill (H.R. 6) that would allow leases for oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. Drilling in ANWR is now banned, and Markey wants to keep it that way despite the fact that ANWR likely contains billions of barrels of oil and could be on a par with Prudhoe Bay, North America’s largest oil field. The House rejected Markey’s amendment.
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| American Wilderness Coalition |
| Markey Amendment; to prohibit drilling for oil in Arctic Refuge. |
Markey amendment that sought to strike the provisions that will allow oil and
gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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| BIPAC |
| H.R.6, On Agreeing to the Amendment. |
Reliable supplies of domestic energy must permit exploration on land with known reserves. Passage of this amendment would have taken the leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off the table.
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| The Club for Growth |
| HR 6 -- ANWR Drilling. |
Vote on the Markey (D-MA) amendment strike provisions in the bill to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. Economic growth depends in part on a safe energy sources and royalties from new natural resource development may cause less economic distortions than income taxes. This amendment was defeated.
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| Republicans for Environmental Protection |
| Stop oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
An amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, by Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) to remove the provisions allowing oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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