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Canada Dry?
Perhaps following the cue of its southern neighbor, Canada announced earlier this week that it’s in no hurry to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. The announcement, made by Environment Minister David Anderson, marked a shift from an earlier suggestion that the nation might endorse Kyoto by as early as June. With the […]
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Kenya Believe It?
If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation’s energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Odinga called the treaty outdated and said it fails […]
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Hatching a New Plan
In the first systematic attempt to reform Washington State’s fish-hatchery system — the world’s largest — the Hatchery Scientific Review Group issued a report yesterday recommending the closure of one Puget Sound-area hatchery and alterations for 22 others. The salmon born in Washington State’s 100-plus hatcheries are thought to pose a threat to wild salmon […]
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They Drilled Kenny!
President Bush approved on Friday a plan to bury the nation’s radioactive waste in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, provoking a firestorm of outrage and an immediate lawsuit by the state’s governor, Kenny Guinn (R). The federal government has spent 10 years and $4 – $7 billion on studying the Yucca site to determine if it is […]
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Sea Change
The rise in sea levels this century due to glaciers and ice caps melting away under higher global temperatures could be almost three times what scientists have previously estimated, according to new data. The new information predicts that ocean levels will increase by between 6.7 and 10.6 inches by 2100 from glacial melt alone. The […]
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Fight Club
The U.S. EPA and the Energy Department are engaged in fierce infighting over the White House’s proposed revisions to the Clean Air Act, according to internal EPA documents obtained by the New York Times. The battle pits EPA Administrator Christie Whitman and her agency against Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and high-powered energy lobbyists, who say […]
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Little Drummer Buoy
For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge — and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don’t have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; […]
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Doe, Oh Dear!
In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the nation’s lead […]
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Lori Urso, Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association
Lori Urso is the executive director of the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association. Tuesday, 19 Feb 2002 HOPE VALLEY, R.I. My week begins, as my last one ended, with lingering decisions: Decisions about our board and about fund-raising; about important things (like a half-million dollar habitat restoration project) and about incidental things (like where to store an […]
