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You Have to Fight for Your Right to Green Party
Though Vice President Al Gore stressed the importance of farmland conservation programs during last night’s final debate between the two major party presidential candidates, the environment got little play otherwise. But Gore’s running mate, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), has been talking up green issues during campaign stops this past week in Texas, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, […]
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Another Fine Mess
Fine particle soot emitted from coal-burning power plants causes the premature deaths of an estimated 30,000 Americans each year, more people than die annually due to homicides or drunk driving, according to a study released yesterday by the Clean Air Task Force. The report calls on Congress to approve a bill that would require 75 […]
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Cut the Crapo
GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush likes to talk about cleaning up contaminated urban sites, or brownfields, and he has said that as president he would push Congress to speed such cleanups, a pledge also made by Al Gore. But two of Bush’s powerful Republican colleagues in the Senate are blocking a bipartisan bill in […]
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Keep Off Trucking
A science advisory committee to the U.S. EPA has agreed with the agency’s assessment that diesel fumes are a “likely human carcinogen,” clearing the way for the EPA to release a report on diesel exhaust that has been at least 10 years in the making. The draft EPA report okayed by the committee, which is […]
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To Itch His Own
A chemical compound known to cause allergic reactions in people is widely used as a flame retardant in computer plastics, according to research published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, a publication of the American Chemical Society. Scientists reported that the compound triphenyl phosphate was present in 10 of 18 new computer monitors they […]
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Maybe Cheetahs Do Prosper After All
India plans to spend more than $1 million in an attempt to clone a cheetah, almost a half century after the animal vanished from the Indian subcontinent. Indian scientists plan to use techniques similar to those being employed by American researchers who have implanted in a cow a cloned embryo of an endangered Asian gaur, […]
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Deborah Bakker, Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives pavilion, EXPO 2000
Deborah Bakker is currently working at the Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) pavilion at EXPO 2000, the World’s Fair in Hannover, Germany. Previously she worked for the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Originally hailing from Ottawa, she currently calls Winnipeg, Manitoba, home. Monday, 16 Oct 2000 HANNOVER, Germany I’ve been here for just over […]
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Should we be fluoridating our drinking water?
Back when I was a chemistry major, my professors told me in no uncertain terms that water fluoridation is a boon. It prevents millions of children from getting cavities. People who oppose it are hysterical know-nothings. We budding chemists absorbed both the specific lesson and the general lesson. Fluoride is good. Scientists know best. What […]
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Polar Vault
After years of negotiating, the U.S. and Russia are signing an agreement today to protect polar bears in northeastern Siberia and Alaska. There are an estimated 3,000 polar bears in the region — and that number has been growing — but enviros have been fearful that the total could decline because ice cover has been […]
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Radioactive-free Europe
About 1,000 demonstrators protested yesterday outside a German nuclear power plant that hopes to ship its radioactive waste to France sometime soon. The German government recently lifted a two-year ban on such shipments, which had been imposed after it became clear that past shipments were leaking radiation well above permitted levels. The demonstration occurred even […]
