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Come on and Easement Down, Easement Down the Road
Almost one-third of Maine’s 15 million acres of forest have been put on sale in the last two years, and conservationists are worried that a good deal of forestland now in private hands may soon be lost to development. Maine voters last year approved $50 million to buy and preserve land, and land trusts and […]
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Stand and De-Liverpool
Citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio, are calling on Al Gore to make good on a 1992 campaign promise to crack down on a local hazardous waste incinerator, which is spewing lead, mercury, and dioxin into the air, just 1,100 feet from an elementary school and alongside the Ohio River. Activists concerned about the incinerator have […]
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Everybody Cut Footloose
Enviros are asking drivers in 700 European cities to take part in a car-free day this Friday, hoping to spread awareness of the pollution and congestion problems caused by cars. Protests against high gasoline prices have spread throughout Europe in recent days, and enviros hope the hoopla will encourage citizens to consider alternative ways of […]
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Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) blasted the cruise ship industry yesterday for polluting state waters and demanded that state and federal governments tighten “woefully inadequate” cruise ship regulations. Preliminary tests of sewage and wastewater that were dumped by 12 ships in Alaska waters this summer found all the ships to be in violation of federal […]
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Help Me, I'm Melting
In another sign that global warming is likely upon us, a study of ice cores from deep inside a glacier suggests that the last century has been the warmest in 1,000 years in the high Himalayan mountains, with the last decade found to be the hottest period of all. The study, published today in the […]
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Try Not to Breathe
Calling for the creation of an international database on air pollution and its health effects, the World Health Organization said this week that the people most at risk from air pollution don’t live in the industrial world but in developing countries. As many as 1 billion people around the world are exposed regularly to pollution […]
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The Cisco Kid Was No Friend of Mine
Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader lambasted Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday over its plans to construct a $1.3 billion campus on one of the last open spaces in California’s Silicon Valley, saying it would contribute to pollution, traffic congestion, and sprawl. Nader, who owns more than $1.1 million in Cisco stock, called on Cisco shareholders […]
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Due for a Shell-acking
A U.S. court of appeals ruled yesterday that a lawsuit accusing Royal Dutch/Shell of assisting in the torture and murder of Nigerian environmental activists can be heard in the U.S., rather than in England. The plaintiffs, including at least one resident of the U.S., contend that the Shell division based in Nigeria took land for […]
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A Campaign Stuck in Park?
Standing on a scenic cattle ranch in the battleground state of Washington yesterday, GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush pledged that he would increase funding for national parks by $3.75 billion over the next five years so that the parks could tackle a major maintenance backlog. “A Clinton-Gore administration has chosen to expand the public […]
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In the Navy, You Can't Put Your Mind at Ease
Forty-one environmental groups banded together yesterday to criticize an effort by the U.S. Navy to exempt two military bases in California from provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Navy officials say they need the exemptions for national security reasons and claim they will implement their own species-protection efforts. In a formal letter to the U.S. […]
