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Sweeter Home Alabama
Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement Monsanto Co. and its spin-off enterprise, Solutia, agreed yesterday to pay $700 million to settle state and federal lawsuits concerning five decades of PCB pollution in Anniston, Ala. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Monsanto (and later Solutia) used a plant in Anniston to produce PCBs, which […]
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Must Have Been Something in the Water
India Says Coke, Pepsi Products Safe to Drink Three weeks after an environmental organization created a furor in India by claiming that soft drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi contained dangerously high levels of pesticides, the nation’s government proclaimed the products safe. Health Minister Sushma Swaraj said today that the government had tested the soft […]
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Going Coastal
Bush Administration Rewrites Rules on Coastal Control When it comes to offshore oil drilling, the Bush administration lost the battle but may well win the war. Earlier this year, a federal judge affirmed California’s right to review all offshore development plans, putting an end to efforts by the Bush administration to drill for oil in […]
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Don’t Call the Sheriff
County Officials in Utah Steal Signs from National Monument The U.S. EPA might be protecting the air in national parks and wilderness areas, but who’s watching out for the land in national monuments? If you happen to live in southern Utah, the answer is: not your local elected officials. Kane County Commissioner Mark Habbeshaw and […]
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Bass Ackwards
International Team Chases Illegal Fishing Vessel Across High Seas It’s kind of like “Pirates of the Caribbean,” only it’s set in the Indian Ocean. Australian and South African customs ships are hunting down the Viarsa, an Uruguayan fishing vessel suspected of poaching millions of pounds of endangered Patagonian toothfish. The high drama on the high […]
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Hazing Incident
EPA Settles Case Over Haze in National Parks Visitors to U.S. national parks and other wild areas should be able to breathe a little easier in the future, thanks to a legal settlement signed yesterday by the U.S. EPA and Environmental Defense. Under the terms of the settlement, the agency has until April 2005 to […]
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Nafta-shocks
Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA Critics have long said the North American Free Trade Agreement spells trouble for the environment. Now, mining company Glamis Gold is poised to prove them right: It plans to use an obscure provision of the treaty to challenge California’s strict environmental laws. For years, the company, […]
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Pain in the Acid
Neighboring Nations to Blame for Acid Rain in Taiwan More than half of the acid rain that falls on Taiwan is the result of pollutants blown in from neighboring countries, according to a study released yesterday by the nation’s Environmental Protection Administration. Between January and July of this year, the average acidity of rain in […]
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Lessons in environmentally friendly living from New York City
In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published a slim book called Ecotopia, in which the Northwest secedes from the United States and establishes itself as an ecological paradise. The text became a counterculture classic, and the term “Ecotopia” entered the lexicon, embodying the American tendency to think of the continent’s forested far coast as a land of […]
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Arson Ick
Radical Environmental Group Claims Responsibility for San Diego Fire Saying it was trying to send a message about “rampant urban development,” the Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for a $50 million fire that destroyed an apartment complex in San Diego two weeks ago. No one was injured in the fire. The destruction of the […]
