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How Ballard is leading the charge to spread fuel cells far and wide
"Our long-term goal is very simple," said California Gov. Gray Davis (D) outside the state capitol in Sacramento in April 1999. "Zero emissions in the air. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Zip." A crowd had gathered to hear Davis announce a major new state initiative, and to see the latest non-polluting automobiles to be unveiled by DaimlerChrysler and Ford. Running on electricity, the peppy performance of these cars dazzled the spectators. The two auto giants promised to have them in commercial production around 2003 or 2004. A new era of environmentally friendly transportation had begun.
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Monumental Momentum
The Grand Canyon just got grander. Photo: Council on Environmental Quality. President Clinton has been on a national monument tear of late, setting aside eight areas encompassing more than 1 million acres since January. National monument status gives the federal government increased authority to prevent development and limit logging and other commercial and recreational activity […]
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I've Got Good News, and I've Got Bad News
In the spirit of celebrating every success, but only to the extent the success deserves, I would like to celebrate something that is kind of hard to describe. The rate at which things are getting worse is slowing down. We’re not going downhill as fast as we once were. The fever is high, but rising […]
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The Dark Side of Pak Moon
Poor citizens of Thailand have begun teaming up with non-governmental organizations and academics to protest environmentally destructive development projects being undertaken without their input. Over the past year and a half, thousands of people have demonstrated in the village of Pak Moon against a hydroelectric dam, funded in part by the World Bank, which is […]
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Soar Spot
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has shelved plans to remove the American bald eagle from the endangered species list in time for the Fourth of July. On July 2, 1999, President Clinton announced that the eagle had made a strong recovery and was expected to be removed from the list by July 2000. But […]
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Block Heads
A high-profile emergency spending package that passed the House last night contains a rider that would block the U.S. EPA from implementing major new rules meant to clean up the nation’s waterways. Under the rules, which the agency intends to finalize this summer, states would be required to determine the total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) […]
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Al Gore Hiss
Al Gore continued laying out his energy and environment plan yesterday, proposing $25 billion in subsidies over 10 years for eco-friendly mass transit. But he affirmed the right of all Americans to drive their cars anywhere they want, anytime they want. “I reject the idea that in order to have a clean environment and reduce […]
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And other words from readers
Grist readers are mighty opinionated when it comes to Green Party presidential nominee Ralph Nader. You’ve been flooding our mailbox with letters responding to Donella Meadows’s column on why she plans to vote for Nader, as well as a follow-up column she wrote on the topic, an item on Nader in our Muckraker column, and […]
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Holy Mackerel!
Commercial fish farming has been touted as a way to take pressure off stocks of wild fish, but in fact it has had the opposite effect, according to a study in today’s issue of the journal Nature. Fish farming, or aquaculture, has raised demand for ocean fish such as mackerel and anchovies that are ground […]
