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Marc Heller, E&E News reporter
Legislation introduced in both chambers of Congress yesterday would strengthen protections for roadless areas in national forests, putting into law the limits previously written into agency rules.
When President Clinton required federal agencies to consider environmental justice in 1994, it was hailed as a landmark achievement for the movement. But Clinton's executive order didn't anticipate one of its biggest obstacles: the agencies themselves.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs in Greenwire
As rains brought some relief for firefighters in the Pacific Northwest, unfounded conspiracy theories linking historic wildfires to left-wing protesters raged.
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When President Clinton required federal agencies to consider environmental justice in 1994, it was hailed as a landmark achievement for the movement. But Clinton's executive order didn't anticipate one of its biggest obstacles: the agencies themselves.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs in Greenwire
As rains brought some relief for firefighters in the Pacific Northwest, unfounded conspiracy theories linking historic wildfires to left-wing protesters raged.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs and Marc Heller in Greenwire