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the bureau had failed to properly review the environmental risks
associated with increased oil and gas development.
“Fracking is not only intensifying oil and gas development in areas
that were in production before, but it’s opening up some beautiful, wild
places where you previously didn’t have drilling,” said attorney Kassie
Siegel, adding that the group ultimately may file another lawsuit over
Wednesday’s auction.
Obama’s ‘Bipartisan’ Austerity/Pauperization Evangelists:
The Bowles-Simpson Traveling Circus Is Just a Distraction
By
Dean Baker
Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
The government has implemented a wide array of policies over the
last three decades that have led to a massive upward redistribution of
income. As a result, most workers have seen little benefit from the
economic growth over this period.
Not surprisingly, the wealthy people who have benefitted from the
policies that have redistributed income upward, for example NAFTA-type
trade deals, Wall Street bailouts, and anti-union labor policies, don't want
the public talking about them. This is why we have the Erksine Bowles
and Alan Simpson speaking tour.y
For those who somehow have missed it, Morgan Stanley director
Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson were the co-chairs of
President Obama's 2010 deficit commission. While they were unable to
produce a report that had the support necessary to win approval from the