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Woe, Canada
U.S. companies are sending increasing amounts of hazardous waste to Ontario, Canada, to circumvent strong and costly disposal rules in the U.S., says a Canadian enviro group. The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy this week called on Environment Minister David Anderson to review Ontario’s hazardous waste regulations, and, if he found them insufficient, […]
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Republicans Putting on Airs
A mysterious group calling itself Republicans for Clean Air is spending nearly $2 million to run a TV ad in big primary states that blasts Sen. John McCain’s environmental record and claims that Texas Gov. George W. Bush has notable green achievements. The organization is unknown to political professionals, environmentalists, and the Federal Elections Commission. […]
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Green Beans
An increasing number of coffee growers in Latin America are going green, abandoning chemical fertilizers and pesticides and growing their coffee in the shade of native trees that provide habitat for migrating songbirds. Several hundred small-scale coffee growers in southern Mexico recently formed a cooperative and adopted green growing methods after finding that they could […]
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Burying the Corps
The National Wildlife Federation and Taxpayers for Common Sense are teaming up today to release a report that criticizes 25 Army Corps of Engineers projects as environmentally destructive and a waste of more than $6 billion. One of the projects blasted in the report is a billion-dollar expansion of barge locks on the upper Mississippi […]
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A Sock in the Eye
About 50 orcas from two pods that live in the waters near Washington state’s San Juan Islands have migrated to California’s Monterey Bay, 1,000 miles farther south than they’ve ever been seen before, most likely because salmon in Washington are in such short supply. In the past, the orcas could count on a year-round supply […]
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My Sediments Exactly
The U.S. Forest Service is sure to stir up controversy today when it proposes a new policy that would make it more difficult to construct roads in the 155 national forests in the U.S. Most such roads are built for logging, and many of them are eroding and dumping sediment into waterways, endangering fish. Under […]
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Old King Coal Was a Dirty Old Soul
The U.S. government yesterday expanded an ongoing legal battle against dirty, coal-burning power plants, adding 12 plants to a lawsuit it filed against utilities in November. The move comes just one day after the feds announced a landmark settlement under which a Florida utility will spend some $1 billion to clean up two dirty facilities. […]
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Ouch — That Street Smarts
Children who live near busy streets or highways are up to six times more likely than other children to contract cancer or leukemia, according to a new study in the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. The study authors, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, speculate that the cause is carcinogens in […]
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Can't See the Forest
20 percent of Earth’s original forests remain undisturbed 13 percent of original forests in the Pacific Northwest remain undisturbed 1 to 2 percent of original forests in the U.S. remain undisturbed 2.47 acres of rainforest are destroyed each second, an area approximately the size of two U.S. football fields 214,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed […]
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Pigs May Fly, Part II: Corporations Go Kyoto Cool
IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson are teaming up with the World Wildlife Fund in a new program to help corporations make significant cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Savers program is intended to show that companies can voluntarily achieve emissions cuts that equal or exceed those called for in the Kyoto climate […]
