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A Man, a Plan, a Canal, a Liar?
Al Gore claimed yesterday that he was the person who had first drawn attention to the contamination at Love Canal, after receiving a letter from a worried high school student about another contaminated site in Tennessee. “I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. I had the first hearing on that […]
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Come, Sea the Turtles
The Surinamese Foundation for Nature Preservation (STINASU) has hatched a plan that is giving indigenous people a reason to protect endangered leatherback turtles. More than half of the world’s population of leatherback turtles come to the beaches of Surinam to lay their eggs, but their numbers have fallen dramatically in recent years, primarily because of […]
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Waiting with Rebated Breath
Maine residents who buy low-polluting, high-mileage cars would be eligible for rebates of up to $3,000 under a bill that will go before the state legislature in January. And under a separate new program in the state, cars that meet particular green criteria will be marked at dealerships with stickers that read “Cleaner Cars for […]
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Biting the Hand that Feeds Them
Several officials in the Food and Drug Administration have disagreed with the agency’s conclusion that genetically modified foods should be regulated the same way as conventional foods and accused the FDA of siding with industry at the expense of consumers, according to internal agency memorandums read yesterday at a public hearing. The documents are part […]
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Wood Finnishing
Sustainable logging can prove more profitable than traditional logging, according to two reports released by the World Wildlife Fund. One report compares the performance of four Swedish forestry companies that had obtained certification from the Forest Stewardship Council, which promotes sustainable forest management, to the performance of four similar Finnish companies that had not. The […]
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Protesters make themselves heard in Seattle
SEATTLE, Wash. The metaphor is irresistible. Between 8 and 10 this morning in downtown Seattle, the protesters owned the streets. Later in the day, they vied with police, back and forth; but as the day began the cops were back inside their perimeters, and the few thousand drumming, singing demonstrators were firmly in control. And […]
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Dead in the Water
Scientists fear that an ecological disaster may be unfolding off the coast of North Carolina, following in the wake of Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd, which dumped some three feet of rain on the eastern third of the state in September. Flooding from the hurricanes washed loads of pollution and organic matter out to sea — […]
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God Help Us
A coalition of loggers in Minnesota is pursuing a novel legal strategy to open up national forests for timber cutting, claiming in a lawsuit filed last month that the U.S. Forest Service is foisting the “religion” of the Deep Ecology movement on all Americans by adopting it as a guiding principle for forest management. The […]
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A Model Environmentalist
In the top news of the presidential race, ex-supermodel Christie Brinkley has thrown her support behind Al Gore, saying his “leadership on environmental issues has been inspirational.” Also, the Sierra Club today will begin running TV and radio “issue ads” in New Hampshire slamming Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) for his environmental record. The […]
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Brothers Grim
Enviros blasted Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) yesterday for his appointments to a new state Everglades commission, saying the panel is tilted heavily toward farm and development interests. The commission is charged with advising the governor and a task force of state and federal agencies on the planned $7.8 billion restoration of the Everglades. Bush […]
