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A cold snap and resulting power-line failures forced the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine to shut down yesterday, three weeks before it is due to be closed for good. While there were no reported radiation leaks, operators are considering simply keeping the plant turned off from here on out, rather than powering it up […]
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To Drink Perchlorate Is Human
In what may be the first large-scale study to use volunteers to test the effect of a water pollutant on humans, the aerospace behemoth Lockheed Martin is funding research in which 100 people are paid $1,000 each to take a pill containing the industrial chemical perchlorate every day for six months. The study, conducted by […]
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I'm Going to Pop You One
More than 120 countries are slated to meet in December in South Africa for a final meeting to draft a global treaty restricting the production of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs). At high doses, POPs — which include pesticides, many industrial pollutants, and PCBs — are deadly toxic, and at low exposures, they have caused […]
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Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment
Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Monday, 27 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. Today, I want to give you some background information about Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment (PRIDE). Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (R-Ky.) and James Bickford, the […]
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That Sinking Feeling
International climate talks in The Hague, Netherlands, collapsed on Saturday, with U.S. and European negotiators unable to agree on a plan for reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Two weeks of negotiations were intended to flesh out the details of the Kyoto climate change treaty, but in the end the Europeans rejected a plan that […]
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Delhi Order: Hold the Pollution
Thousands of workers and factory owners took to the streets in New Delhi, India, last week following an order by the Supreme Court to shut down polluting factories in residential sections of the city, one of the most polluted metropolitan areas in the world. After two days of protests, three deaths, dozens of injuries, and […]
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They're Not Making a List, They're Not Checking It Twice
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared last week that it would not add any animals or plants to the endangered species list until next fall because it is so busy trying to cope with lawsuits filed against the agency by environmentalists pushing for stronger species protections. Enviros criticized the decision. “Fish and Wildlife is […]
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Pool's Paradise
Environmentalists and private landowners in Mexico struck an agreement last week to protect 7,000 acres of the Mexican desert, one of the largest private land conservation deals in the country, enviros say. The land on the edge of the Sierra Madre in the state of Coahuila, known as Ranch of the Blue Pools because it […]
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The Sound and the Flurry
The Clinton administration is preparing to implement a flurry of controversial regulations on environmental and other issues before a new president moves into the White House on 20 Jan. The U.S. EPA alone is said to be considering more than 60 new regulations, including ones to restrict or ban the use of certain pesticides and […]
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The U.S. balks at a global solution to global warming
THE HAGUE, Netherlands Bill McKibben reports from The Hague: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five If you walk straight out the front door of this convention hall and skirt the sandbagged dike that activists built during a weekend demonstration, you find yourself at the front door of a squat building with […]
