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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Take Out an Ad
The British Columbia government began running radio and newspaper ads yesterday accusing a native Indian tribe of illegally logging on public land. The government also started legal proceedings to stop the logging by the Westbank Tribal Nation, which began 17 days ago after treaty negotiations between the tribe and the provincial and federal governments broke […]
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Your One-Stop Shop for Carcasses, Pesticides, and Other Goodies
Rivers in North Carolina and New Jersey are horribly contaminated in the wake of Hurricane Floyd, and North Carolina officials say the state is facing its worst-ever environmental disaster. The Cape Fear River in North Carolina is carrying raw sewage, farm pesticides, industrial chemicals, oil slicks, hog feces, and animal carcasses into the Atlantic. Cleanup […]
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This scientist is making quite a buzz
The San Rafael Desert — 500 square miles of rolling gravel broken by an occasional butte or sandstone formation — certainly isn’t the prettiest place in eastern Utah. Dotted with cattle and exploratory oil rigs, it is a living example of the federal government’s policy of multiple use on public lands. For just about anybody […]
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Le Car-less
Tens of thousands of citizens in Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Rome, and some 150 other European cities left their automobiles at home yesterday to observe a car-free day, the second annual one in France and first in Italy. Enviros hope the day caused drivers to think about smog and their role in creating it. A French […]
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Coming Soon: A 10K Salmon Run
A major electric utility in the Northwest, PacifiCorp, said yesterday that it would pay $17 million to remove a dam rather than cough up the $30 million that would have been needed to make it less harmful to fish. At 125 feet in height, the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in southwestern Washington […]
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Tiger Salamander Lawsuits: They're Grrreat!
In a lawsuit filed this week against the feds, the Center for Biological Diversity is pressing to have the California tiger salamander and nine other critters in the West protected under the Endangered Species Act. The group says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delayed protecting the animals for years though they are on […]
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Peter Pence Gets Pounded
The poor in Britain are hit much harder by pollution than the rich, according to a new report produced by Friends of the Earth and the think tank Catalyst. In parts of Britain where the average annual household income is below 15,000 pounds ($25,000), there are 662 polluting factories, while in areas where the average […]
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Californians to Stop Passing Gas?
The California Air Resources Board today will consider a first-of-its-kind crackdown on something usually not thought of as an environmental threat: small, portable gas cans. The cans are so leak-prone and ubiquitous — there are an estimated 10 million in California — that they are responsible for as much smog-forming pollution as 1 million cars, […]
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New Kink for Perverse Subsidies
If the world’s governments took just a portion of the money they use for environmentally damaging subsidies and used it for conservation efforts, the world’s rich diversity of species could be preserved, according to a new study in the journal Nature. Researchers at the University of Cambridge calculated that governments spend between $950 billion and […]
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Oil and U'wa Don't Mix
In a move that a Colombian Indian tribe says could mean the end of its culture and people, Colombia’s government yesterday granted Occidental Petroleum a license to explore for oil just outside a 543,000-acre reserve inhabited by the U’wa Indian nation. The company had initially sought permission to explore directly on U’wa land, but the […]
