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Industry is talking about climate change. Why aren't the presidential candidates?
Like the nine-foot-deep blanket of ice at the top of the world, America’s denial of the climate crisis is melting. In hot water in the Antarctic. Photo: Michael Van Woert, NOAA. And like the North Pole, it is melting from the top down. Over the last year, in the wake of steady alarms from leaders […]
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Let the Rivalry Begin!
Bitter rivals Toyota and Honda are racing against each other to create affordable eco-friendly cars. Toyota announced this week that it plans to offer a full range of hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, everything from ultra-compacts to luxury sedans, SUVs, and commercial trucks, though the company didn’t specify when they would hit showrooms. Enviros have praised Toyota […]
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Got Wood?
After years of being criticized by enviros, the lumber industry is hoping to give its image a boost by spending $45 million on a three-year campaign to promote wood to consumers, along the lines of the dairy industry’s highly successful milk-moustache ad campaign. Working under the umbrella of the Wood Promotion Network, 85 forestry producers […]
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They Just Won't Kyoto the Line
Several Republican senators expressed skepticism yesterday that international negotiations on the Kyoto climate change treaty this November would produce an agreement the Senate would ratify. At a Senate hearing, Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) said the treaty would unfairly burden the American economy by forcing reductions in the use of oil and coal. Sen. Chuck Hagel […]
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Give This a Whirl
A coalition of 38 businesses and environmental groups, ranging from the Whirlpool Corp. to the Natural Resources Defense Council, called on President Clinton this week to do more to promote energy efficiency. Clinton recently announced that the government will tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help lower home heating oil costs, but the coalition […]
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Club Feat
As part of a $3 million October campaign blitz, the Sierra Club announced yesterday that it will run TV and radio ads criticizing the environmental record of George W. Bush in four swing states — Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In one ad, set to start running on Monday, an announcer says, “Al Gore created […]
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Have You Herd?
Wildlife organizations this week are trying to increase pressure on the Clinton administration to stop killing bison that leave Yellowstone National Park in the winter in search of food. Monday is the deadline for public comment on the administration’s environmental impact statement on bison management in and around the park, and the National Wildlife Federation, […]
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And other words from readers
A number of the following comments on campaign 2000 and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader are responses to a set of letters published previously. Dear Editor: I read all the letters posted on the Nader-Gore-Bush debate. I had planned to vote for Ralph Nader, but with the benefit of so many other perspectives, I […]
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The Red Barren
According to a new “red list” released today by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), 11,046 plants and animals worldwide are at risk of extinction, up by more than 200 species from the last time the list was updated, four years ago. This includes 24 percent of mammal species and 12 percent of bird species. And […]
