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Commitment Ceremony
After a weekend-long meeting in Trieste, Italy, environmental ministers from Russia and the world’s top seven industrialized countries pledged yesterday that they would continue to work together to fight global warming. In a formal declaration, the ministers wrote, “We commit ourselves … to strive to reach agreement on outstanding political issues and to ensure in […]
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Getting Left Behind
Ralph Nader is working with the Green Party to run as many as 80 candidates for Congress in 2002, twice the number that ran in 2000. He said the Green candidacies will help to move the Democratic Party to the left, though he acknowledges the tactic could prevent the Dems from winning control of the […]
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G-8 Is Enough
All eyes are on the U.S. as environmental ministers from the Group of Eight, the major industrialized countries plus Russia, begin a weekend meeting today in Trieste, Italy, to discuss global warming. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman indicated today that the Bush administration was rethinking the country’s stance on the issue and did not […]
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A Starlink Is Corn
U.S. Agriculture Department officials ordered seed dealers yesterday to determine how much of the U.S. corn seed supply contains Starlink, the genetically engineered corn variety that led to huge recalls of food and corn crops last year. Starlink, which is produced by Aventis for animal feed, has not been approved for human consumption. The agriculture […]
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Pretty Belize With Sugar on Top
Environmentalists are mounting an international campaign against the proposed Chalillo dam on the Macal River in Belize, fearful that critical jungle habitat for tapirs, jaguars, and scarlet macaws could be lost. The dam project, which has the support of the Belize government, was first proposed in the early 1990s to wean the country from its […]
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Share and Share Dislike
Environmental and human rights groups are accusing the oil giant BP of playing dirty and preparing to squash debate on shareholder resolutions at its annual meeting next month. With the backing of hundreds of shareholders with millions of shares, Greenpeace and the Free Tibet Campaign want the meeting to addresses four issues: climate change, oil […]
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Pew, Those Oceans Smell
Pollution from inland sources of fertilizer and manure is threatening bays and estuaries in the U.S., according to a report released this week by the Pew Oceans Commission. The study stated that nitrogen and ammonia from these sources are producing toxic algae blooms, depleting oxygen levels, and destroying sea grasses and coral reefs. Leon Panetta, […]
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Shock Diesel
The Bush administration announced yesterday that it would let stand regulations put forward by former President Clinton to cut diesel exhaust from big trucks and buses by 95 percent. The new rules will require oil refiners to reduce the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel by 97 percent and force manufacturers to install pollution control […]
