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Second Class Citizen
Al Gore spent his second class as a professor at Columbia University’s journalism school focusing on how the media cover global warming. Before the class, students were given materials suggesting that the vast majority of the world’s climate scientists believe global warming is occurring, and they were asked questions like, “Is it your view that […]
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In the Driver's Seat
With buddies of the auto industry now in charge of the White House, automakers said last week that they will no longer lobby to freeze federal fuel-efficiency standards. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards have remained unchanged since 1975, and the industry until last year had been successful in blocking the Clinton administration from even […]
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What's Good for G.M. Is Bad for California
General Motors sued California on Friday to overturn the state’s zero-emissions-vehicle mandate, which requires automakers to produce a limited number of ZEV vehicles in 2003 and increase the number in following years. The lawsuit claims that the California Air Resources Board didn’t take seriously automakers’ concerns about the mandate’s cost or consider a reasonable alternative […]
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The Rain in Spain Falls Wherever the Government Wants
Tens of thousands of demonstrators, including musicians and children, took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday to protest a massive $23 billion water diversion project in Spain. The plan, which is now before the country’s parliament for final approval, would divert the Ebro River in the northeast and involve the construction of 120 dams to […]
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Sunita Dubey, Toxics Link India
Sunita Dubey is a regional coordinator based in New Delhi for Toxics Link India, an information clearinghouse for toxics and related issues. Monday, 26 Feb 2001 DELHI, India As usual, I wake up with Monday blues. It takes me almost an hour to reach my office. Typically I enjoy observing the hustle and bustle of […]
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Won't Somebody Please Take Out the Trash?
The garbage is piling up in New Delhi, India, because the city doesn’t have an adequate waste management system in place to handle the 8,800 tons of trash produced each day by its 13 million residents. The city manages to clear only 5,400 tons a day, and dumps most of the trash into open landfills, […]
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Wounds in Our Salt
Forget underground storage for high-level nuclear wastes, says John Leivia, director of Strategic Environmental Technologies. Last week, his company proposed plans to inject thousands of canisters of plutonium into salt formations beneath the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement was a big surprise to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy, which plan […]
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You Dropped a Bomb on Me, Navy
Opposition to Navy bombing exercises on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico is growing stronger as researchers on the island have found toxic levels of heavy metals in crabs, edible plants, and human hair. The Navy has been testing bombs and artillery shells on Vieques for the last six decades, and many islanders believe […]
