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The Thrill of No Drill
With a quarter of a million troops amassing outside Iraq and the city of Baghdad preparing for Armageddon, it’s tough to find anything resembling a silver lining in the headlines. But there was some good news yesterday in the environmental sector: Senate Republicans said they had probably come up short in their efforts to secure […]
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Off Balance
Earning kudos from environmentalists, the Michigan Department of Agriculture has banned the use of Balance Pro on the state’s 2.2 million acres of corn fields. Balance Pro is a powerful herbicide and a possible carcinogen that has contaminated surface and groundwater in other states, in some cases lingering in waterways 10 months after a single […]
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Wolf Downed
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed changing the status of wolves in the Western U.S. from endangered to threatened, a move that could signal the eventual delisting of the species. Management of the wolves would then be turned over to Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The wolf was nearly extinct a half-century ago and […]
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Sarah Lloyd, Cambrians for Thoughtful Development
Sarah Lloyd is a member of Cambrians for Thoughtful Development, a citizens group concerned about a proposed ethanol plant in Cambria, Wis. She also works at the Aldo Leopold Foundation and tends to a large garden from which she eats and sells vegetables locally. Monday, 17 Mar 2003 CAMBRIA, Wis. As I drive through the […]
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Breathing Sleazy
The U.S. EPA assured New Yorkers that the smoky, dusty air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe in the days immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but an independent federal investigation has found plenty of evidence to the contrary. In making its claims, the EPA assumed a cancer risk level 100 times […]
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No More Take-out Sushi
Japan’s landfills are filling up fast, prompting the national government to launch an initiative intended to cut the nation’s waste stream in half by 2010, from 56 million tons per year to 28 million. In this densely populated archipelago, locals don’t take kindly to plans for new landfills and they don’t like the idea of […]
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Ontario Clean-air Scenario
In Ontario, Canada, the three major political parties have agreed to shut down all five of the province’s coal-burning power plants by 2015, the biggest success so far in an anti-coal campaign that is gaining momentum in Canada. Enviros will be particularly glad to get rid of the Nanticoke power plant on the northern shore […]
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We Shall Call Them Mini-cells
President Bush predicts that his grandkids will be part of the first generation that will learn to drive in fuel-cell vehicles, but society may not have to wait for First Twins Jenna and Barbara to settle down to family life before we’ll see some benefits from fuel cells. By the end of this decade, miniature […]
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Senior Citizen Diss-count
Anti-war protestors have accused President Bush of placing too little value on human life. Now the Bush administration is trying to literally devalue not Iraqi lives but American ones. The White House is pushing federal agencies to cut the dollar value they place on a human life when determining the costs and benefits of policy […]
