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All the Anti-president's Men
Robert Redford, in a letter made public on Friday, has royally dissed an invitation from U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to attend a press event with her later this month to release a California condor into the wild. Norton invited Redford after learning that he was critical of her policies. She noted that he had […]
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Appeal of Thunder
Two jailed environmental activists in Mexico, Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, have been granted an appeal, their lawyers said last week. The activists, who led peasant farmers to protest against rampant logging in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero, have been sentenced to seven and 10 years in prison, respectively, for drug and weapons charges. Supporters […]
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Laura Kriv, TechRocks
Laura Kriv is the campaign manager of TechRocks’ nuclear disarmament Internet campaign, DontBlowIt.org. Monday, 14 May 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. Some people think that the nuclear disarmament movement is dead. After all, the Cold War is long over. The fear is gone. But is it really? Or has it just been replaced by some other equally […]
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Michelle Knapik, Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program
Michelle Knapik is chair of the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program and director of energy policy in Philadelphia’s Municipal Energy Office. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Michelle Knapik wrote about her experiences at the National Clean Cities Conference, held last month in Philadelphia. Saturday, 12 May 2001 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. I tossed […]
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Chile Peppered
As Chile makes a push to increase its produce exports, the country has begun to use more chemicals on farms, a trend that public health workers say has put farm workers at greater risk of skin disease, miscarriages, sterility, and cancer. A 1998 study in the region where 60 percent of Chile’s pesticides are used […]
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Lodge, a Complaint
A federal judge in Idaho yesterday blocked former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forestland. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge ruled in favor of the state of Idaho and timber giant Boise Cascade and said that if the plan went into effect tomorrow, as had been scheduled, […]
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Seven Brydes for Seven Samurai
Japanese whaling ships set sail yesterday to hunt for minke, Bryde’s, and sperm whales. Whaling ships earlier this year brought home 440 minke whales, but the second hunt will be more controversial because Bryde’s and sperm whales are thought to be more endangered. When a similar hunt occurred last year the Clinton administration threatened Japan […]
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The Emperor Strikes Out
Emperor penguins have been dying as global temperatures have risen, according to a study by French scientists published yesterday in the journal Nature. From 1952 until 1975, the penguin population near a French Antarctic base held steady around 6,000, but in the late 1970s, the number dropped to 3,000, where it has since stabilized. The […]
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Cement Shoos
A federal judge ruled for the second time in a month yesterday that a cement plant can’t be opened in a poor black and Latino neighborhood in Camden, N.J. In April, U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky said the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection had violated the federal Civil Rights Act in giving the plant […]
