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<p>WASHINGTON -- The fight to exempt the military from various environmental laws moves into the House on Tuesday, and groups ranging from environmentalists to state water districts and the National League of Cities are suiting up for battle with the Pentagon.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — President Bush and his Republican allies in Congress have an opportunity to give the nation's energy and environmental policies a more pro-business tilt, and they're moving quickly to take advantage of it.</p> <p>The pending war with Iraq and disruptions of oil supplies from Venezuela highlight the need for greater energy independence, a goal Bush listed as one of his top priorities in his State of the Union address last month. Republican leaders in Congress are moving quickly to revive an energy bill that died last year in the Senate, which was controlled by Democrats.</p>

SHOW LOW — Frustrated residents from fire-charred communities in the White Mountains blasted the U.S. Forest Service for its response to the Rodeo-Chediski fire and the sluggish pace of salvage operations during a special congressional field hearing here Saturday. The new danger for the communities devastated by the June fires comes from federal officials bogged down by bureaucratic procedures as they prepare plans to salvage trees killed by the wildfires, witnesses said. Bob Leaverton, fire plan coordinator for the southwestern forest region which includes Arizona, said the Forest Service is conducting an environmental assessment that should be finished by...

Full Title:Scientist’s Computer Projections Fail to Reveal Tree Threatened by Fatal Disease, Extinction Likely (Opinion is Divided, though a Review is Unlikely) Subtitled: Computer Model Revealing lack of alligators at North Pole is cause for Concern (Environmentalists Shout Save Allie!) There are two bills in Congress,H.R. 2829 and H.R. 3705, to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973. If approved, the law would require empirical, field-tested data and peer-reviewed data for ESA action. Too much analytical modeling-theory is the trend, a method that has been shown to fail expensively with attempts to manufacture habitat for the Piping Plover in Nebraska....