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More Proof That There's No Difference Between Gore and Bush
Less than two hours after taking office, President Bush acted on Saturday to delay or block the Clinton administration’s final initiatives, including many environmental rules. Bush’s executive order put a 60-day stay on regulations that have been published in the Federal Registry but haven’t yet taken effect. Bush has expressed particular unhappiness with the Clinton […]
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The Tortoise and the Scare
An Ecuadorean oil tanker that ran aground about 550 yards off one of the Galapagos Islands began spilling oil on Friday, posing a major threat to the rare bird and marine life in the area. About 150,000 gallons of diesel fuel have already escaped from the 240,000-gallon tanker, creating an oil slick of at least […]
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2100: A Heat Odyssey
By 2100, the average world temperature could rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report released today in Shanghai by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This estimate is significantly higher than the 1.8- to 6.3-degree rise predicted by the IPCC in 1995. The Shanghai report, the third such assessment by […]
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Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, “unmanageable by any earthly force though they are.” She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Monday, 22 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah But yield who will to […]
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Deregulation in California didn't help consumers, or the environment
As blackouts roll through California, the New Hampshire Supreme Court cleared the way for electrical restructuring, while a Vermont utility assured legislators that what is happening out West can’t happen here. Why not? The powers that don’t have to be. As I hear people try to explain California’s electricity problem, I wonder whether anyone really […]
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Heavy Sigh-anide
A cyanide spill in northeastern Romania has killed thousands of fish and now poses a health hazard to humans, government officials said yesterday. The spill occurred when the contents of a storage container at a recently closed chemical plant spread from a rain gutter into a tributary of the Siret River, raising cyanide levels in […]
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NOPEC, No Way, No How
Queensland state leaders in Australia have delighted enviros by pressing the federal government to reject a plan to explore for oil near the Great Barrier Reef. The federal environment minister, Robert Hill, says he will respond within a week to a proposal by the company TGS NOPEC to carry out a seismic survey about 35 […]
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Getting Their Just Deserts
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and enviros reached an agreement this week to reduce road access and add protections for species in 11.5 million acres of desert in Southern California. The deal, which settles a lawsuit filed last year by the Center for Biological Diversity and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, bans grazing on […]
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Norton, Your Life
In a Senate hearing yesterday that had Democrats lining up on one side, Republicans on the other, President-elect Bush’s choice for Interior secretary, Gale Norton, described herself as a both a “compassionate conservative and a passionate conservationist” and sought to soften some of her most controversial stands in the past. Norton disavowed a 1991 speech […]
