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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
David Waskow monitors the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations for Friends of the Earth U.S., where he is the trade and investment policy coordinator. Monday, 16 Apr 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. It’s Quebec City week, the week that some believe will be the next Seattle. Seattle, of course, refers to the monumental eruption […]
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Meet the New Boss — Same As the Old Boss?
In a move that drew tentative approval from both environmental groups and the timber industry, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman yesterday named Dale Bosworth to head the U.S. Forest Service. Bosworth, a longtime USFS employee, has been regional forester since 1997 for the agency’s Northern Region, which covers 25 million acres in 12 national forests […]
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We're Going to Pump (Clap Clap) You Up
Florida’s Senate passed a measure on Wednesday that would relax environmental rules and allow untreated, partly contaminated water to be pumped into the state’s underground aquifers. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) has asked the U.S. EPA for a waiver from the Safe Drinking Water Act, which requires any water pumped into the ground to be […]
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Fin and Dandy
Maryland became the first state to regulate genetically modified fish this week when Gov. Parris Glendening (D) signed a law that prohibits raising such fish unless they are in ponds or lakes that do not connect with other waterways. Under the law, fish growers must also make sure the fish cannot escape by other means, […]
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Case Clothed
The White House yesterday chose to stick with rules approved by the Clinton administration requiring more efficient clothes washers and hot water heaters. The regulation for clothes washers, which was supported by manufacturers, will boost efficiency by 22 percent by 2004 and 35 percent by 2007. Efficiency will be increased by 8 percent for gas […]
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Super Models
Two studies published today in the journal Science provide some of the strongest evidence yet that global warming is here and humans are to blame. The studies, based on computer models, found a direct connection between emissions of greenhouse gases and the extensive warming in the world’s oceans since 1955. They also suggested that even […]
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Holy Mackerel!
Federal guidelines to protect women of child-bearing age and babies from mercury in seafood are inadequate, according to a report released yesterday by the Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The groups said that the dietary guidelines established this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were flawed in part because […]
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Smoky Mountains
Concerned that North Carolina’s mountains are being choked by pollution from coal-fired power plants, all 50 members in the state’s Senate have asked President Bush to clean up the smokestacks of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The senators (35 Democrats, 15 Republicans) cited the work of a scientist at North Carolina State University, which found that […]
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Sh*tty Group?
Students gathered in about 80 cities around the world yesterday to protest Citigroup’s role in funding environmentally destructive projects. At the company’s headquarters in New York City, demonstrators tossed the company’s signature red umbrellas and a replica of Earth into a coffin. They were objecting to projects like China’s Three Gorges Dam, an oil pipeline […]
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It's a Hard-rocks Life for Us
The amount of toxic chemicals emitted by industry in the U.S. grew by 5 percent in 1999, the U.S. EPA said yesterday in its annual Toxics Release Inventory. Two-thirds of the 7.7 billion pounds of chemicals came from hard-rock mining companies and electric power-plant operators. Four mining states — Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska — […]
