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4. Carl Hulse, “Accord Reached by Republicans for Energy Bill,” New York Times, November 15, 2003, p. A1.
5. Carl Hulse, “Energy Bill Could Upend Lawsuits over Gasoline Additive,” New York Times, November 16, 2003, p. 24.
6. William Niekirk, “Senate Blocks Sweeping Energy Bill,” Seattle Times, November 22, 2003, viewed at http://seattletimes.nesource.com/html/nationworld/2001798472_enery220.html.
7. “Senate Gives Up on Energy Bill for 2003,” CBN.com, November 25, 2003, viewed at http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews?Wire/031125c.asp.
8. Karen Wayland, Natural Resources Defense Council, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., January 2004.
9. “Senate Adds Rule to Double Ethanol in Gasoline,” New York Times, June 6, 2003, p. A20. The ethanol rule was meant to double the use of ethanol in gasoline, providing a boon to corn farmers.
10. Ewall, “The Energy Bill.” Daschle “sold out to the ethanol lobby and now supports the bill.” See also “Senate Adds Rule to Double Ethanol in Gasoline.” The ethanol proposal was introduced by Frist and Daschle.
11. Ewall, “The Energy Bill.”
12. Carl Hulse, “Senate Starts Energy Debate Under Threat of Filibuster,” New York Times, Nov. 20, 2003, p. A28.
13. Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., December 2003.
14. “The Price of Governance,” Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2004, p. A14.
15. Karen Wayland, Natural Resources Defense Council, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., January 2004.
16. Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind), interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., December 2003.
17. Greg Wetstone, Natural Resources Defense Council, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., January 2004.
18. Ewall, “The Energy Bill.”
19. Senator John Sununu (R-N.H.), interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., February 2004.
20. The House passed the bill with a vote of 246-180. Ewall, “The Energy Bill.”
21. “Archer-Daschle-Midland,” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2003, p. A12
22. Greg Wetstone, Natural Resources Defense Council, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., January 2004.
23. Ibid. The final vote was 57 to 40, not 58, because Frist changed his vote procedurally in order to preserve his right to bring the legislation up for another vote. See also Carl Hulse, “Senate Blocks Energy Bill; Backers Vow to Try Again,” New York Times, November 22, 2003, p. A1.
24. Greg Wetstone, Natural Resources Defense Council, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., January 2004.
25. “MTBE in Drinking Water,” Environmental Working Group, viewed at http://www.ewg.org/issues/MTBE/20031001/report.php.
26. “I Don’t Want My MTBE: GOP Protects Fuel Additive Manufacturers Despite Drinking Water Contamination,” Public Citizen, viewed at http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/energybill/2003/articles.cfm?ID=10546.
27. “MTBE Fate and Transport,” New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, viewed at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/mtbe/fate_and_transport.htm.
28. “MTBE: What the Oil Companies Knew and When they Knew It,” Environmental Working Group, viewed at http://www.ewg.org/reports/withknoweldge/index.php.
29. “Minutes of the MTBE-Environment Meeting,” The Hague, October 24-25, 1991.
30. “MTBE: What the Oil Companies Knew.”
31. “Occurrence of the Gasoline Additive MTBE in Shallow Ground Water in Urban and Agricultural Areas,” U.S. Geological Survey, viewed at http://sd.water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pubs/factsheet/fs114.95/fact.html.
32. “MTBE cleanup in the U.S. will cost at least $29 billion,” viewed at http://eces.org/archive/ec/pollution/mtbe.shtml; Matthew Hagemann et al., “Cleanup Cost for MTBE Contamination of Drinking Water Supplies,” report forthcoming.
33. “I Don’t Want My MTBE: GOP Protects Fuel Additive Manufacturers Despite Drinking Water Contamination.”
9 National Security
1. President George W. Bush, “Remarks by the President on the One-Year Anniversary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” March 2, 2004, available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040302-2.html.
2. EPA Risk Management Plan (Facility ID: 100000025215) available
by request at http://www.rtknet.org
/rmp/NJ.php.
3. Richard Pienciak, “Toxic Time Bombs at Chemical Plants: Terror Strike Could Endanger Millions,” New York Daily News, July 14, 2002.
4. See Margaret Kriz, “In Sight: Chemical Targets,” The Record, August 10, 2003, p. 1.
5. Rick Hind, Legislative Director of the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign, interview by David Ludlum, May 13, 2004.
6. Rand Beers, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism for the National Security Council, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., February 2004.
7. Margaret Kriz, “Bush Not Doing Enough to Protect Chemical Plants, Critics Contend,” National Journal, August 7, 2003, viewed at http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0803/080703nj3.htm.
8. “Al Qa’ida Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Threat and Basic Countermeasures,” Bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Protection Center, no. 03-003, February 12, 2003, available at http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/infobulletins/2003/ib03003.htm.
9. Congressional Record, volume 149, pp. S 289-S 305 (January 14, 2003), viewed at http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2003/s157.html.
10. Senator John Corzine (D-N.J.), interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 2004.
11. “Chemical Reaction Despite Terrorism Threat, Chemical Industry Succeeds in Blocking Federal Security Regulations,” Common Cause, January 27, 2003, viewed at http://www.commoncause.org/publications/jan03/012703_chemical_reaction.pdf.
12. Ibid.
13. Paul Rosenzweig, “The Chemical Security Act: Using Terrorism as an Excuse to Criminalize Productive Economic Activity,” Executive Memorandum # 833, Heritage Foundation, September 12, 2002, viewed at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/em833.cfm.
14. See http://www.nationalreview.
com/comment/comment-logomasini
091702.asp.
15. Amy Ridenour, “When It Comes to Safeguarding Chemical Facilities, the EPA is No Defense Department,” National Policy Analysis, October 2002, viewed at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA436.html.
16. “Despite Terrorism Threat, Chemical Industry Succeeds in Blocking Federal Security Regulations,” Common Cause, January 27, 2003, viewed at http://www.commoncause.org/publications/jan03/012703_2.htm.
17. Ledyard King and Beth Gorczyca, “Chemical Plants Tighten Security — Senate Might Require Industries to Assess Possible Terrorist Threats,” Herald-Dispatch, September 26, 2002.
18. September 10, 2002, letter from Senators Inhofe (Okla.), Arlen Specter (Pa.), Bob Smith (N.H.), Kit Bond (Mo.), George Voinovich (Ohio), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Pete Domenici (N.M.); George Allen letter to Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, August 23, 2002.
19. “Chemical Reaction Despite Terrorism Threat.”
20. Margaret Kriz, “In Sight: Chemical Targets.”
21. Margaret Kriz, “Bush Not Doing Enough to Protect Chemical Plants, Critics Contend.”
22. Ibid.
23. Senator John Corzine (D-N.J.), interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 2004.
24. “Homeland Security: Voluntary Initiatives Are Under Way at Chemical Facilities, But the Extent of Security Preparedness Is Unknown,” General Accounting Office Policy Papers, March 2003, viewed at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03439.pdf.
25. Meghan Purvis and Julia Bauler, “Irresponsible Care: The Failure of the Chemical Industry to Protect the Public from Chemical Accidents,” U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, April 2004, p. 5, viewed at http://uspirg.org/reports/IrresponsibleCare2004.pdf.
26. “Homeland Security: Voluntary Initiatives Are Under Way.”
27. Carl Prine, “Lax Security Exposes Lethal Chemical Suppl
ies,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 7, 2002.
28. “Chemical Plant Security Breaches in the News,” Working Group on Community Right-to-Know, viewed at http://www.crtk.org/detail.cfm?docID=26&cat=spills%20and%20emergencies.
29. U.S. Senate Report 107-342, November 15, 2002, viewed at http://
www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/
R?cp107:FLD010:@1(sr342); Tom Ridge, “Testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Concerning Nuclear Power Plant Security,” July 10, 2002, available at http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/safeguards/response-911.html.
30. NOW With Bill Moyers, aired on PBS, March 21, 2003.
31. Ron Gatto, director of Environmental Security for Westchester County, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., August 2003.
32. See Tarannum Kamlani, “Life in a Reactor’s Shadow,” MSNBC, June 5, 2002, viewed at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3072034/; see also “Review of Emergency Preparedness of Areas Adjacent to Indian Point and Millstone,” James Lee Witt Associates, LLC, January 10, 2003 [Witt Report], viewed at http://www.wittassociates.com/NYReport.zip.
33. Public Citizen, Petition Pursuant to 10 Cfr §2.206, Indian Point Unit 2, Docket No. 50-247, available at http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/nuclear_power_plants/decomissioning/articles.cfm?ID=5861.
34. Kyle Rabin, Riverkeeper, e-mail to David Ludlum, May 12, 2004.
35. See V. L. Sailor et al., “Severe Accidents in Spent Fuel Pools in Support of Generic Safety Issue 82,” NUREG/CR-4982, Washington, D.C.: NRC, July 1987.
36. “The Mastermind,” 60 Minutes II, March 5, 2003.
37. “Fresh FBI terror warning,” BBC News, November 15, 2002, viewed at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2481799.stm.
38. “Security Gap: A Hard Look at the Soft Spots in Our Civilian Nuclear Reactor Security,” U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, March 25, 2002.
39. Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 50.13 (10 CFR §50.13).
40. Douglas Pasternak, “A Nuclear Nightmare,” U.S. News & World Report, September 17, 2001, viewed at http://www.nci.org/01/09/09-3.htm.
41. “Report of Investigation: Entergy Nuclear Northeast, Indian Point #2; Security Services IP 2-431,” Keith Logan, January 25, 2002.
42. Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Collins, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 3398 (2 d Cir. 2004).
43. “Nuclear Regulatory Commission Oversight of Security at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants Needs to Be Strengthened,” U.S. General Accounting Office, Sept. 2003, viewed at
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?
GAO-03-752.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Matthew Wald, “Nuclear Regulatory Agency Lax on Reactor Security, Congressional Audit Finds,” New York Times, September 28, 2003.
47. “Witt Report,” viewed at http://www.wittassociates.com/NYReport.zip.
48. Mary Boyle, “Political Meltdown: Yucca Mountain Supporters Contribute $29.2 Million in Soft Money,” Common Cause, March 13, 2002.
49. Ibid.
50. “Corporate Security Spending Only Up Slightly,” Conference Board Newsletter, Fall 2003, viewed at http://www.conferenceboard.org/publications/newsletter/dec2003_security.cfm.
10 What Liberal Media?
1. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, at http://www.missouri.edu/~polidjw/Nelson.html; see also Senator Gaylord Nelson, “All About
Earth Day,” at http://earthday.
wilderness.org/history/.
2. Comments by Gaylord Nelson to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 22, 1990.
3. See “Diminishing Returns: World Fisheries Under Pressure,” World Resources Institute, 1998-1999, viewed at http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1390.
4. NRDC, “Global Warming Puts the Arctic on Thin Ice,” NRDC, viewed at http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/qthinice.asp.
5. “Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care,” Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2003, viewed at http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/6069=index.cfm; see also, “Racial Bias Has Effect on Health Stress of Unequal Access, Socioeconomic Status Play Roles, says Expert,” Akron Beacon Journal, June 15, 2003.
6. “Study Sees Mass Extinctions Via Warming,” MSNBC, January 8, 2004,
viewed at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/
3897120.
7. “Mixed Media,” Sierra Club Magazine, November 2003, viewed at http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/media.asp; see also “Networks Gave Environment 4 Percent of 15,000 Prime News Hole Minutes in 2002,” Metcalf Institute Environment Writer, June 2003, viewed at http://environmentwriter.org/resources/articles/0603_networks.htm.
8. See Federal Radio Act of 1927 at http://showcase.netins.net/web/akline/pdf/1927act.pdf.
9. See Fairness Doctrine, at http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm.
10. “Tobacco Advertising in the United States,” Media Scope, March 9, 2000, viewed at http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/taus.htm.
11. Friends of the Earth v. FCC, 449 F. 2d 1164 (D.C. Cir. 1971).
12. Bill Moyers, Keynote Address to the National Conference on Media Reform November 8, 2003, viewed at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm.
13. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969), viewed at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=395&invol=367.
14.In re Complaint of Syracuse Peace Council against Television Station WTVH Syracuse, New York, 99 FCC 2d 1389 (1984).
15. Mafruza Khan, “Media Diversity at Risk,” Corp Watch, May 29, 2003.
16. Fairness Doctrine.
17. Eric Boehlert, “Is Clear Channel Playing a ‘Shell Game’?” Salon.com, November 20, 2001, viewed at http://dir.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/2001/11/20/fcc_complaint/index.html.
18. William Safire, “Halt Media Madness,” Arizona Daily Star, February 17, 2004.
19. “Super Polluters — The Top 25 Superfund Polluters and Their Toxic Waste Sites,” Public Interest Research Group, viewed at http://www.pirg.org/reports/enviro/super25/index.htm.
20. Ibid.
21. “Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients,” viewed at http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipients/recipients.html.
22. Complaint in Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc., Florida 13 th Judicial Circuit, General Civil Division.
23. “Florida Milk Supply Riddled With Artificial Hormone Linked to Cancer; Reporters Say They Were Ordered to Lie About It on Fox-TV,” BGH Bulletin (2000), viewed at http://www.foxbghsuit.com/.
24. Michael Hansen, Ph.D., et al., “Potential Public Health Impacts of the Use of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin in Dairy Production,” September 1997, viewed at http://www.consumersunion.org/food/bgh-codex.htm.
25. “Dairy farmers applaud gov’t rejection of growth hormone,” CBC News, January 15, 1999, viewed at http://www.cbc.ca/stories/1999/01/15/sci-tech/bgh990115.
26. “New Zealand adopts strict tests to keep out genetically modified seeds,” Associated Press Worldstream, August
1, 2002, viewed at http://ngin.tripod.
com/010802b.htm.
27. Paul Elias/Associated Press, “Consumer Watch: Production cutback revives hormone debate; Tainted batches of Monsanto’s engineered hormone used in dairy herds have rekindled safety concerns,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 15, 2004, p. E05.
28. “The Mystery in Your Milk,” Ibid., viewed at http://www.foxbghsuit.com/exhibit%20r.htm.
29. Letter to Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, from attorney John J. Walsh, February 21, 1997, viewed at http://
www.foxbghsuit.com/.
30. Ibid.
31. Complaint in Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.
32. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.
33. Complaint in Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.
34. Trial transcript, Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.
35
. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.
36. Opinion in New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre, Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Case No. 2D01-529, February 14, 2003.
37. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. v. Akre, 2003 WL 327505 (Fla.App. 2 Dist. 2003).
38. Opinion in New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre.
39. Amicus curiae brief, New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre, September 13, 2001, Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Case No. 2D01-529.
40. Order Granting Rehearing and Clarification and Denying Rehearing En Banc and Certification, New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre, Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Case No. 2D01-529, February 25, 2003.
41. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.
42. Jane Akre, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.
43. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.
44. Marvin Kitman, “Talk is Cheap, but Reruns are Cheaper Still, Chuck,” Newsday, June 24, 1998, p. B43.
45. Arianna Huffington, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 2004.
46. Laurie David, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 2004.