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Kelpie Wilson, Siskiyou Regional Education Project
Kelpie Wilson is executive director of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots network formed to protect the wild forests and rivers of the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion in northwest California and southwest Oregon. Tuesday, 5 Sep 2000 CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. Well, Grist readers, you have caught me, and the Siskiyou Project, right in the midst of […]
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Fighting for Poor, Oppressed Oil Conglomerates Everywhere
Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced on Friday that as president he would “empower” oil producers and welcome offshore oil and gas development off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. He says more drilling is needed in the U.S. to decrease dependence on foreign oil. Al Gore, for his part, has promised to clamp down […]
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Judge Dread
A federal judge who has been presiding over a case filed against Texaco by Indians in Ecuador has a potential conflict of interest, say lawyers for the plaintiffs, who filed a motion on Friday requesting that the judge recuse himself. The suit was filed in 1993 on behalf of thousands of Ecuadoreans who say Texaco’s […]
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Think How Many Episodes of "Survivor" That Is
Raising fuel-efficiency standards for SUVs would be of more help in the fight against global warming than reducing power plant emissions or increasing energy efficiency in homes and offices, says the Sierra Club. The group launched a nationwide campaign over the weekend to draw attention to what it says are the evils of SUVs, such […]
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Reality Bites
Linda Harrar is an independent filmmaker, based in Boston but usually traveling the world producing documentaries for NOVA and other PBS programs. Through the lens of the camera, she sees a lot. In the editing room she sees it over and over. It sinks in deep. So she had a strong reaction to the CBS […]
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God Forbid!
Enviros in India are calling for a change to a Hindu tradition that results in dramatic annual fish kills. Each year, at the end of a 10-day festival in Bombay for the Hindu god Ganesh, tens of thousands of painted statues of the elephant-headed deity are thrown into lakes, waterways, and the Arabian Sea. “Within […]
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Foes No More
Friends of the Earth (FoE), which endorsed Bill Bradley in the Democratic primary and had hinted that it might support Green candidate Ralph Nader in the general election, is officially endorsing Al Gore today. FoE President Brent Blackwelder said the group agonized over the decision because it has been disappointed in the Clinton-Gore administration and […]
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Cut Down in Their Prime
Using helicopters, forged permits, and police scanners, forestry thieves are illegally cutting tens of millions of dollars worth of old-growth trees a year in British Columbia. A big part of the problem is that some mills are knowingly supporting a black market in wood. One forestry official described the environmental degradation caused by the increasing […]
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The Bureau of Land Management is due for a shake-up
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls more land than any other agency in the world. Its 265 million acres in the American West cover an area greater in size than the entire National Forest system plus the state of Wyoming. You too should care about the […]
