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Never Say Nader Again?
Ralph Nader is getting the cold shoulder from Democrats on Capitol Hill, and some liberal activists have stopped contributing to the groups he founded. For example, Joan Claybrook, president of the Nader group Public Citizen, said that members of Congress were refusing to work with her group. Polls have shown that about half of the […]
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A Day in the Life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia’s environmental resources are being “plundered” and the current government has only made the problem worse, says Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the 81-year-old Nobel Prize winner. In a newspaper column last week, the writer criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for abolishing the country’s environmental protection and forestry agencies and shifting their responsibilities to the extraction-happy Natural Resources […]
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Year of the Snake Oil Salesman
President Bush said yesterday that he was “deeply concerned” that the energy crisis in California was “spreading beyond the California borders.” The thing to do about it, he said, was to make it far easier for companies to drill for oil and gas and to build new power plants. “And a good place to look […]
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Are we losing touch with good, simple things?
Years ago, when I went out to my new chicken house and found the very first freshly laid egg, I stared at it in awe. “How did that hen do that?” I wondered. She takes in grain and bugs and kitchen scraps and turns them into an egg. Shell on the outside, white and yolk […]
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Argy Bargy
A pile of trash that has been floating at sea for 15 years may have finally found a home in Florida. The pile — which began as 14,000 tons of municipal waste from Philadelphia in 1986 — has been rejected by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Singapore, as well as the states of Georgia, Ohio, and […]
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Montana: Max Has Money, Enviros Are a Pain
Montana Republicans are gearing up to make the state’s enviro laws much more friendly to industry groups, arguing that the laws have hurt the state’s economy and cost jobs in the mining, logging, and energy industries. The effort is likely to succeed because Republicans have the majority in both legislative chambers and the state’s new […]
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Giant Sucking Sounds II
The first widespread application of hydrogen fuel-cell technology might not be in cars but in vacuum cleaners. Industry giant Electrolux said last week that it is close to developing a fuel-cell vacuum that would be lighter than conventional models, much quieter, and, of course, free of a power cord. Big advances in pollution reduction are […]
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Tank Goodness
Thankfully, the oil spill in the Galapagos has caused only minimal damage to wildlife, enviros say. The oil tanker Jessica ran aground about 550 yards off the Ecuadorean archipelago and spilled about 185,000 gallons of fuel, but ocean currents have helped the clean-up effort and carried most of the fuel away from the islands, which […]
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Big Yak Attack
A ragtag group of about two dozen men fighting to stop poaching of the Tibetan antelope in China was forced to disband this month. Leaders of the China’s Wild Yak Brigade were told to take county jobs, and other members were offered jobs with the government’s less-experienced anti-poaching program. The antelope, whose fine wool is […]
