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Absolut Geneophobia
In another blow to biotechnology in Britain, one of a small group of farmers set to participate in trial plantings of genetically modified crops has dropped out of the project. The farmer changed his tune after meeting with local residents and members of Friends of the Earth, which has gone to court to try to […]
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WWF Body Slams DDT
A study released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund argues that innovative methods can be used to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes just as effectively as the dangerous insecticide DDT, and that such methods would be cheaper and safer than spraying DDT. WWF is pushing for a phaseout of DDT and 11 other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) […]
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The PricewaterhouseCoopers is Right
PricewaterhouseCoopers sees big bucks ahead in climate change. The financial consulting company has joined forces with EcoSecurities, a specialist in greenhouse gas mitigation, to develop financial advisory services to help companies deal with the impact of caps on greenhouse gas emissions. In other green business news, some corporate leaders in California have teamed up with […]
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Wyoming Jones and the Incinerator of Doom
Grassroots activism is infecting the well-to-do in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where rich and poor alike are rallying against a proposed federal nuclear waste incinerator in nearby Idaho. While many citizen movements lack the resources to mount successful campaigns against the government, organizers in Jackson Hole managed to raise a half-million dollars during one town rally […]
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The Latest News on the Ozone Layer
Twenty-five years ago, there appeared two scientific papers that rocked the industrial world. One of them, by Richard Stolarski and Ralph Cicerone, said that if chlorine atoms ever got wafted up into the stratosphere, they could eat up the ozone layer. The second, by Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland (who got the Nobel Prize for […]
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No Island Is an Island
Several dozen small island nations, which have banded together to raise awareness about their plight as climate change threatens their futures with rising seas and increasingly violent weather, will get a chance to voice their fears in a special session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 27 and 28. The nations will once again […]
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Razing Arizona
Fourteen months before voters head to the polls, a brawl is already brewing in Arizona over proposed ballot initiatives that aim to deal with sprawl. The Sierra Club is sponsoring an initiative that would impose mandatory urban boundaries and development controls throughout the state. Last week, political appointees delivered an opposing business-backed package of growth […]
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Meanwhile, Kansas Wants a National Adam-and-Eve Day
An unusual coalition of environmentalists, big business, labor organizations, and consumer advocacy groups is banding together against proposed legislation that would make it harder for the federal government to preempt the states with nationwide standards on the environment and a range of other issues. In an effort to shift political power back to the states, […]
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Stop POPs Before We Drop
Talks began yesterday in Geneva on a global treaty to control or ban 12 toxic chemicals known as “the dirty dozen,” including DDT, dioxin, and PCBs. Enviros are pressing negotiators to move quickly to ban the persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which break down extremely slowly, are absorbed into the food chain, and have been linked […]
