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Marquis de Slade
The Clinton administration continues to give signs that it will postpone until after the presidential election a recommendation on whether to breach four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state. Washington Sen. Slade Gorton (R) this week renewed his promise to block any proposal to breach the dams, saying there’s not enough scientific […]
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Hazing Ritual
A number of state environmental officials who have chafed under tough federal air quality regulations plan to meet in Michigan next week with executives of polluting industries to discuss how environmental standards might be loosened if George W. Bush wins the presidency. The gathering is being organized by Michigan’s top environmental official, Russ Harding, who […]
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Who Says Globalization Is a Bad Thing?
Earth Day events are getting underway in 183 countries, leading up to the 30th anniversary of Earth Day this Saturday, April 22. This year’s Earth Day campaign is focusing on clean energy and global warming, says Denis Hayes, chair of Earth Day Network and one of the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970. […]
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Should campaign finance reform become the next big green issue?
"Politics," said Will Rogers, "has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." And that was in the 1930s.
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Ohm, My Goodness!
Energy conservation has saved California $34 billion since 1977, roughly $1,000 for each resident, and has played a big role in helping the state’s economy grow, according to a new state-commissioned report. The report comes as the California legislature is considering bills to extend beyond 2001 a four-year-old charge on utility bills that helps fund […]
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Trade in Those Mittens for Oven Mitts
January through March of this year was the warmest such three-month period in the U.S. during the past 106 years of record keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA Director James Baker said, “The scientists are now telling us they can’t explain what we have seen without including a significant part of […]
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Won't You Be My Nader?
Friends of the Earth, which created a stir by endorsing Bill Bradley over Al Gore in the Democratic presidential primary, may shun Gore again in the general election and give its backing to Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. FOE President Brent Blackwelder said yesterday that the group has been talking to Nader’s staff. Meanwhile, Nader […]
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Tell Us Something We Don't Know
Yup, global warming is happening and humans seem to be to blame, according to an early draft of a long-awaited report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This new preliminary analysis by the IPCC, an international collaboration of top scientists sponsored by the U.N. and the World Meteorological Organization, comes to the same basic […]
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Bear?
Canadian enviro groups are getting upset over a plan to remove a few dozen grizzly bears from British Columbia and reintroduce them to the Selway-Bitterroot wilderness of Idaho and Montana. This is just the latest effort to use Canadian wildlife to replenish depleted American populations; the U.S. government has already taken Canadian lynx and gray […]
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Why Be Normal?
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) will oppose granting China permanent normal trade relations, arguing that a trade deal with the country needs to encompass greater protections for the environment, human rights, and organized labor. Gephardt’s decision, which he is set to announce tomorrow, is a big setback for the Clinton-Gore administration, which has made […]
