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The Salmon Equivalent of Richard Hatch
After several years of controversy, the feds yesterday listed wild Atlantic salmon in eight Maine rivers as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Only 27 adult salmon have returned up the eight rivers to spawn this year. Enviros praised the decision, but said it may have come too late, and they stressed that it would […]
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Wolf Blitzes
Defenders of Wildlife formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday to reintroduce wolves to the southern Rocky Mountains, an area encompassing western Colorado, southern Wyoming, northern New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Utah. The region would be ideal for wolves because it is sparsely populated and contains large stretches of public land, […]
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Stop the WTO — and Bring Some Coleslaw
Many environmentalists and other anti-globalization activists are planning to gather in Seattle on 30 Nov. to mark the one-year anniversary of much-publicized protests against the World Trade Organization. Thousands are expected, though far fewer than the estimated 50,000 who hit the city’s streets last year, calling for trade policies to be made more friendly to […]
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Forced Busing?
U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is set today to unveil a new management plan for California’s Yosemite National Park that aims to reduce crowding and traffic congestion in the park, which gets 4 million visitors a year. A centerpiece of the long-anticipated plan is an expanded shuttle bus system intended to cut automobile traffic by […]
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Cowa-Bunga!
A Malaysian ship, the Bunga Teratai Satu, that had been stuck on the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast of Australia for 12 days was tugged to freedom earlier today. Enviros were unhappy that rescuers had to blast away coral with dynamite to get the ship loose; fortunately, the blast did not cause any […]
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Swapping Spat
With two weeks of international negotiations over how to implement the Kyoto climate change treaty beginning today in The Hague, Netherlands, President Clinton on Saturday called for the first time for federal regulations that would limit emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from power plants in the U.S. Clinton proposed a trading system, similar […]
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Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Monday, 13 Nov 2000 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. We had […]
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Go Tell Anti-Roady!
Many U.S. environmentalists are celebrating today after the Clinton administration unveiled a new version of its plan to protect roadless national forest lands. The plan has been expanded to encompass the huge Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a change enviros had been lobbying for, though activists are disappointed that protections wouldn’t be extended to the […]
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Taiwan on
Nearly 20,000 Taiwanese citizens hit the streets of Taipei and Kaohsiung yesterday to protest against nuclear power and show support for Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, who is facing a political crisis after announcing a decision to halt construction of a partially completed nuclear power plant. Leaders of Taiwan’s three main opposition parties, angry over the […]
