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Al Together Now
The stomp of enviro feet leaving Al Gore‘s camp and heading toward consumer advocate Ralph Nader‘s Green Party tent appears to have put quite a fright into the vice president’s operation. The veep is spending valuable time nowadays campaigning in the Pacific Northwest and states like Wisconsin, places he should have locked up by now […]
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Painting Ourselves Into a Warmer
White paint and green trees can help reduce heat and pollution in urban areas, according to a study by NASA and the U.S. EPA. An abundance of dark pavement and black roofs, which soak up sunlight rather than reflect it, can make some cities 2 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than surrounding areas and aggravate […]
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Jumble Shrimp
Reigniting a dispute over environmental protection and the World Trade Organization, Malaysia yesterday accused the U.S. of failing to overhaul its laws to permit unrestricted shrimp imports. In 1998, a WTO panel struck down a U.S. ban on the import of shrimp from countries that couldn’t prove that their shrimping fleets were taking measures to […]
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Blair Tactics
In a major environmental speech, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that the government would devote about $150 million to the development of renewable energy and other measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help stave off climate change. Blair pledged to put environmental issues higher up on the political agenda, and he stressed […]
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Questions that should have been asked in the presidential debates
Well, the “debates,” carefully controlled by the major political parties, are over. I guess it was too much to expect that hard or important questions would be asked. But the candidates are still on the road, where they might be queried by an unscripted citizen. Or by a reporter who believes that fitness to lead […]
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Deb Callahan, League of Conservation Voters
Deb Callahan is president of the League of Conservation Voters, based in Washington, D.C. Monday, 23 Oct 2000 LOS ANGELES, Calif. So, here I am writing a week of diaries for Grist Magazine to publish online. On the one hand, I’ll enjoy sharing my crazy week with Grist’s readers (I’m an avid Grist fan myself.) […]
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I Vant to Suck Your Juice
Household gadgets and appliances suck power even when they’re shut off, constituting 10 percent of the electricity use in the average San Francisco Bay area household and costing residents about $80 a year, according to a new study by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These so-called vampires include everything from stereos and computers […]
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Bury, Bury Scary
The Department of Energy now says the amount of plutonium and other radioactive waste from the manufacture of nuclear weapons that was released into soil or buried in thin containers from the 1940s to the 1970s was 10 times larger than previously thought. The DOE had been saying since 1987 that more than 97 percent […]
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When Al's Said and Done …
Al Gore made a hard pitch to enviros during an impassioned campaign speech in Portland, Ore., last night, pledging to protect old-growth trees, roadless forest areas, and salmon runs. “When it comes to the environment, I’ve never given up, I’ve never turned back, and I never will,” Gore told a crowd of nearly 4,000, in […]
