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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.18/california-dope-ebay-pollution-and-moonbeams">        <title>California: Dope, eBay, pollution and moonbeams</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.18/california-dope-ebay-pollution-and-moonbeams</link>        <description>California flashes back to the 1970s with campaigns to legalize marijuana and re-elect Jerry Brown as governor, while other key races are also sizzling hot.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Carly Fiorina</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jerry Brown</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>decriminalizing drugs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Meg Whitman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Barbara Boxer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Election 2010</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tea Party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California Proposition 19</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California Democrats</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-20T17:24:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.2/poltertics-2010">        <title>Poltertics, 2010</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.2/poltertics-2010</link>        <description>"They're ba-a-ackk!": Enviro-boogeymen return from the dead as Republicans like Richard Pombo seek a comeback.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Poltergeist movies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democrats</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>election year 2010</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steve Pearce</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:24Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/dodged-bullets">        <title>Dodged bullets</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/dodged-bullets</link>        <description>On several environmental issues, the Bush administration failed to push through its agenda.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Grazing reform</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paul Hoffman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National monuments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas leasing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Selling off federal lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act revision</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16240">        <title>Pete McCloskey rides again</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16240</link>        <description>Former California Rep. Pete McCloskey says the need to
defend the environment is behind his decision to run against
Richard Pombo in the Republican primary</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Patrick Farrell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pete McCloskey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican primary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Abramoff scandal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public land sales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>anti-environmentalists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wayne Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yolo
County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lodi</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:32Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16142">        <title>Public acres for sale</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16142</link>        <description>President Bush revives a proposal to sell off public lands
managed by the BLM and the Forest Service as part of his 2007
budget</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brett Wilkison</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Budget</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>2007 budget</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public
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                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Gibbons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Secure Rural Schools and
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rural schools</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Max
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                    <dc:subject>Conrad Burns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>education funding</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Janine Blaeloch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16126">        <title>The many problems of Richard Pombo</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16126</link>        <description>California Republican Rep. Richard Pombo is having a
terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House
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                    <dc:subject>Jack Abramoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Siegenthaler</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Charles Hurwitz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>FDIC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>savings and loan bailout</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mashpee Wampanoag
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                    <dc:subject>tribal recognition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native American Affairs Subcommittee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pete M</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16109">        <title>The difficulties of cohabitation</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16109</link>        <description>Despite its problems and failures – many of them
arising from the conflict between the United States’ growing
population and our declining wildlife habitat – the
Endangered Species Act is a necessary law</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in
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                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard M. Nixon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>population growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada population</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>demographics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tony Davis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecosystems</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
laws</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16108">        <title>High Noon for Habitat</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16108</link>        <description>In Riverside County, Calif., the conflict between the
Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat rule and the
West’s booming, sprawling, growth-driven economy comes to a
head</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tony Davis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use and
Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Threatened and Endangered</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>critical habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate
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                    <dc:subject>growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sprawl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San
Jacinto Valley crownscale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>multi-species habitat
conservation plans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>threatened species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16080">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16080</link>        <description>Pete McCloskey plans run against Rep. Richard Pombo; 11
alleged eco-terrorists indicted; BLM gives six companies chance to
work on oil shale production; Gray Development buys expensive state
land in north Phoenix.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Pete McCloskey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Endangered
Species Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eco-terrorism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alberto Gonzales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earth
Liberation Front</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Animal Liberation Front</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vail arson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil Shale Exploration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil-Tech</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chevron</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ExxonMobil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EGL R</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16008">        <title>Bipartisan uprising sinks public-lands selloff</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16008</link>        <description>Reps. Richard Pombo’s and Jim Gibbons’
controversial proposal to sell off public lands was pulled after
both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and citizens rallied
against it</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Gibbons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>1872 Mining Law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public
lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining claims</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House budget reconciliation
bill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Craig Thomas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conrad Burns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wayne Allard</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joel Gossett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>citizen activis</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15976">        <title>Congress bets on oil shale</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15976</link>        <description>Northeastern Utah, southern Wyoming and western Colorado
are humming with new talk of oil shale, but industry insiders say
that the technology has years to go before oil shale development is
financially and environmentally viable</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jennie Lay</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil Shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vernal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>RAND Corporation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uinta Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uintah County Economic Development Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>White River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil-Tech Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Romit Bhattacharya</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Black Sunday</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
shale bust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>marlstone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>kerogen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15944">        <title>Public-lands agenda turns more radical, urgent</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15944</link>        <description>Rep. Richard Pombo has inserted a provision in the House
budget bill that will reform United States mining law to allow for
the selling off of public lands</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Burkhart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining claims</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining patents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Gibbons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national parks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joshua Tree National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yosemite National
Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Cascades National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Death Valley National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uncom</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15942">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15942</link>        <description>Richard Pombo wants new offshore drilling; Nevada gold
mines spew mercury across West; grazing fees don’t pay for
program; judge slams Forest Service over refusal to look at
environmental impacts of fire retardant</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>offshore drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling royalties</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gold mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mercury</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Department of
Environmental Quality</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water
pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing fees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Government
Accountability Office</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fore</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15941">        <title>The little wilderness that could</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15941</link>        <description>The long and carefully planned campaign to protect the
Ojito Wilderness in New Mexico holds useful lessons for wilderness
activists across the West</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ojito Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness legislation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalition for New
Mexico?s Wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Martin Heinrich</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Zia Pueblo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Udall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff
Bingaman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pete Domenici</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Heather Wilson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Resources Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wil</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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scandals</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15658</link>        <description>Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources
Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily
grown</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Weiser</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House of Representatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Resources
Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom DeLay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Abramoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mariana
Islands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sweatshops</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rich PAC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Franking Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Public
Citizen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Kennedy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nepotism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>L.A.
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