Midas
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Published: 2006
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780751534665
First sentence: IN A MOVE EQUALLY SURPRISING to both foes and supporters, Stephanie Ingles, the Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, announced yesterday that over eight million acres in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve have been designated as a national monument and have thus become permanently off-limits to oil companies that have been pressing the administration to let them begin drilling in the region.