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The Lead Badge of Courage
Vermont Senator Proposes Stricter Drinking-Water Legislation Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.) announced this week that he will introduce legislation that aims to eliminate lead from the nation’s drinking water. The Lead-Free Drinking Water Act, the first major proposed revision of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 14 years, would ban plumbing fixtures with more than 0.02 […]
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Terminator 4: Demise of the Machines
Schwarzenegger to Kill Machines, Again — This Time, the Polluting Kind California officials seeking to ameliorate the state’s persistent smog problems are focusing on a common group of culprits: old machines. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is meeting with business groups, enviros, and legislators to develop a plan to rid the state’s roads of old cars, […]
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Climate change too slow for Hollywood, too fast for the rest of us
It’s always been hard to get people to take global warming seriously because it happens too slowly. Not slowly in geological terms — by century’s end, according to the consensus scientific prediction, we’ll have made the planet warmer than it’s been in tens of millions of years. But slowly in NBC Nightly News terms. From […]
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Bottled water flies off the shelves, but smart money is on filter systems
Thirsty for facts on bottled water? When the United Nations declared 2003 the International Year of Freshwater, they likely weren’t thinking of Perrier. And yet bottled water has become freshwater’s most high-profile face, from Evian to Dasani and scores of other brands that now crowd store shelves. Why have products that cost 240 to 10,000 […]
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Blame Canada
British Columbia Mine Plan Has Montanans in an Uproar Coal-mining and natural-gas drilling projects could soon get underway in British Columbia’s Flathead Valley, just north of the U.S. border and Glacier National Park, but a group of Montana enviros and politicians is bringing international pressure to bear in an attempt to stop them. The valley […]
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Hear No Evil
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Two Environmental Cases Such is the power of the U.S. Supreme Court that its refusal to hear a case can carry as much weight as a ruling, and two such refusals this week have enviros buzzing. One case involved the U.S. EPA’s authority to force the Tennessee Valley Authority — […]
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A Pressing Matter
Journalist Covering Eco-Radicalism Gets Snared in Story A journalist covering attempts by Earth First! activists to thwart a cougar hunt on federal land has been arrested along with one of the activists and charged with trespassing and disabling mountain-lion traps. The case raises troubling and knotty questions about the First Amendment and the ability of […]
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A long-time conservationist and budding politician answers questions
What work do you do? As the executive director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund, I work to ensure the persistence of imperiled species and their habitats, with an emphasis on private land. More generally, I work to advance the science of restoration ecology and ensure that an increasing number of people live more simply, […]
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Absolutely Cabulous
New Hybrid Taxis Taking Off Once the sole province of eco-conscious consumers willing to pay a little extra to reduce their environmental footprint, gas-electric hybrid vehicles have found an eager new consumer demographic: taxi services. In urban areas from Vancouver to Boston to New York City, taxi operators are getting hep to the benefits of […]
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Drain Oh!
Harsh Western Drought May Be the Norm, Say Scientists The harsh drought that has been plaguing the American West in recent years is set to produce a raft of environmental, political, and social crises, but we’d better get used to it, say some scientists. Research into the drought cycles of the past 800 years increasingly […]
