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Double, Double for Forest Trouble
The Clinton administration today will announce a proposal to nearly double federal spending for protection of the world’s tropical rainforests to $150 million. Much of the money would be used to help more than 60 nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America strengthen their own efforts to fight excessive logging and illegal burning of forests. […]
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Get Along, Little Doggies
The Clinton administration acknowledged yesterday that the black-tailed prairie dog should be listed as a threatened species, but stopped short of granting it protection under the Endangered Species Act. Such protection would have imposed restrictions on developers and ranchers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that it is dealing with a backlog of other […]
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They're Multiplying Like Bunnies, I Tell You
Nonprofit organizations working on environmental, social, and economic issues have been springing up around the world in record numbers in recent years, bringing social and political change on local, national, and international levels. The nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have had a major impact on everything from forest protection to human rights to the decommissioning of nuclear […]
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Grist for the Windmill
An Anglo-Dutch consortium plans to build the world’s tallest pair of offshore wind turbines this summer, in the North Sea one kilometer off England’s northeast coast. The partners, which include oil giant Royal/Dutch Shell, hope the pilot project will pave the way for a potential $9.6 billion investment in the area, considered to be Europe’s […]
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Johnny Muir, Meet Johnny Cash
A growing trend in the conservation movement has enviros across the U.S. offering financial incentives to farmers and ranchers to protect land or endangered animals. In Indiana, the Nature Conservancy is giving some farmers an average of $3,000 to help them buy equipment needed for low-erosion tillage. In Nevada and Utah, several environmental groups are […]
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Be My Ballantine
Pres. Clinton will propose a $2.4 billion package of programs to combat global warming, including $200 million to promote the sales of energy-efficient U.S. technology abroad, White House officials said yesterday. That’s a 40 percent increase over what Congress approved for similar programs last year, but White House environmental staffer Roger Ballantine said the administration […]
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Float Like a Butterfly … We Hope
Mexican officials are cracking down on illegal logging that threatens the winter habitat of hundreds of millions of migratory monarch butterflies, but they have yet to halt the tree-chopping completely. The government and sustainable development groups are working to promote monarch ecotourism in the nation’s central Michoacan state as a way to create jobs and […]
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Letter Rip
Leaders of green groups are pushing Pres. Clinton to put his money where his mouth is on trade and the environment. In a letter to the prez, the enviros praise his recent speeches about the importance of including environmental and labor concerns in trade matters, but they say his words have been contradicted by action […]
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And wishing I'd left the car at home
Editor’s note: Actor and environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., journeyed last month in a natural-gas car from his hometown of Los Angeles to Des Moines, Iowa, site of the nation’s first political caucuses, to raise the profile of clean-car technology. Here he relates his (mis)adventures. Ed — happier in a tree than in a car. […]
