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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect All of World Agriculture
Using a new weapon to fight biotechnology, activists announced yesterday that they plan to file antitrust lawsuits in 30 countries accusing major biotech firms, grain traders, and grain processors of using genetic engineering to gain control of world agriculture. Jeremy Rifkin, director of the Foundation on Economic Trends, said the legal actions are intended to […]
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How Much Wood Would WTO Chuck, If WTO Could Chuck Wood Tariffs?
Enviros will take a swing at “free trade” today, releasing a report warning that the World Trade Organization may weaken forest protections this fall. The report argues that a U.S. proposal for zero tariffs on forest products would push logging up some 3 to 4 percent worldwide. The report, written primarily by staffers from the […]
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Et Tu, FoE?
Friends of the Earth will stick it to Al Gore today when the group’s political action committee announces that it will back Bill Bradley, Gore’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. The group notes that Bradley’s voting record in Congress got a higher rating than Gore’s from the League of Conservation Voters — 85 percent […]
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Does This Make Up for Teflon Bullets?
Giant U.S. chemical company DuPont announced yesterday that it intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, taking “early action” before the Kyoto climate change treaty is enacted. The company also plans to hold its energy use flat and get 10 percent of its energy from renewable sources […]
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Fright of the Condor
The National Audubon Society yesterday denounced plans for a new wind energy project north of Los Angeles in the historical habitat of the endangered California condor. As part of the California government’s plans to promote renewable energy, the state last year awarded $7 million to Enron to help construct the farm. But the U.S. Fish […]
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A-bomb-inable
Two areas in Yugoslavia hit by NATO air strikes this spring are environmental “hot spots” in need of immediate decontamination, Pekka Haavisto, head of the U.N. environment team’s Balkan task force, said yesterday. Pancevo, a petrochemical industry area north of Belgrade, should be cleaned up before pollution contaminates the Danube River, and Kragujevac, an industrial […]
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Gloria Feldt, Planned Parenthood
Gloria Feldt is president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Monday, 13 Sep 1999 NEW YORK CITY Monday started on Sunday. A call from Mel Carnahan, the governor of Missouri, encouraged me to help raise the last $75,000 needed to complete the media buy to support his veto of an abortion ban bill, which […]
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Do the Wild Thing
The Wildlands Project, an eight-year-old Tucson-based group, aims to revolutionize wilderness protection in North America by linking wild areas from coast to coast. Launched by Michael Soule, considered by some the father of conservation biology, and Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!, the group envisions 25 networks that would, among other things, connect Yellowstone to […]
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Inventor of the Internet, Savior of the Fish Net
Vice Pres. Al Gore is catching flak for announcing a $5 million aid package for the troubled New England fishing industry, but neglecting to mention that the aid was not new but rather that it had been approved almost a year previously. Gore’s office said he was simply making a “formal official announcement” that the […]
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Terroriffic!
Environmentalists have stepped in where the feds feared to tread, publishing on the Internet information about the risks of chemical accidents in the U.S., including state-by-state summaries of potential “worst-case scenarios.” The information was provided to the EPA by thousands of companies, but a new federal law prevents the agency from posting the info on […]
