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Arctic Refuge Sacrificed

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For 25 years, there has been a bitter debate about opening the Arctic Refuge to development. The oil industry may have finally gotten its way, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it backed drilling opponents into a corner.

The House of Representatives passed a bill allowing drilling in the refuge, but the bill also contained money for hurricane relief and bird flu preventive measures. Don't you just love politics?

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