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Angelo the Ripper
Environmentalists scored a victory yesterday — albeit a fragile one — when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that the Clean Water Act applied to attempts by developers to fill wetlands using an increasingly common method known as deep ripping. The case concerned a California developer, Angelo Tsakopoulus, who used deep […]
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No Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus
Virginia may be the cradle of American democracy, but it’s also the stingiest state in the union when it comes to the environment. According to a fiscal analysis released yesterday, the state spends less on environmental protections than any other; moreover, current environmental spending rates are lower than they have been since 1984, as calculated […]
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Milling for the Grist
Green-leaning former Vice President Al Gore has decided against running for president in 2004 — but never fear, Grist Magazine is keeping its hat in the ring. No, we’re not running Umbra Fisk as a write-in candidate for ’04; we do plan, however, to be around to tell it like it is on the environment […]
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Turning Japanese
An Eco-Products exhibition held recently in Tokyo, Japan, attracted more than 100,000 visitors and no shortage of unusual inventions. The big-ticket item was, of course, Toyota’s fuel-cell car, which has just been leased to the Japanese government, but there were plenty of other forms of green ingenuity on display as well. These ranged from the […]
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New Issue, Same Old Jersey
South Camden, N.J., has the distinction of being one of the nation’s poorest cities — and an important East Coast laboratory for the environmental justice movement. Environmental justice advocates believe South Camden’s poverty goes a long way toward explaining why the city is home to so many plants and factory facilities, many of which spew […]
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Subway Diet
The threat of a transit strike in New York City has been staved off — for the moment, at least — but New Yorkers still have reason to worry about their public transportation system. The more than 4 million people who use the Metropolitan Transit Authority pay more to keep it running than do mass-transit […]
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This Ain’t Rocket Science. Oh Wait, Yes It Is.
The U.S. Pentagon is a major source of perchlorate, the main ingredient of solid rocket fuel and a toxic chemical that can cause neurological problems and developmental damage in infants and children, and possibly cancer and other serious ailments in adults. For decades, millions of Americans have been exposed unknowingly to perchlorate through their local […]
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Rumors of the EPA chief stepping down may not be greatly exaggerated
It takes one to know one, they say, so when Eric Schaeffer indicates that U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Whitman might jump ship, we sit up and take notice. Schaeffer, the former director of the EPA’s Office of Regulatory Enforcement, resigned last February to protest the agency’s failure to fulfill its mission to advocate on behalf […]
