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A Chip-Mill on Their Shoulders
Commercial logging has escalated dramatically in the South in recent years, and an unlikely set of Southerners, including local loggers and tourism officials, are speaking up to say that tree-cutting is out of control in the region. After the feds drastically reduced logging in the Northwest in the early 1990s, big timber companies focused their […]
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Winning a Tony
Al Gore’s presidential campaign is promising pro-environment business leaders a special session with campaign Chair Tony Coelho if they raise $5,000 for the candidate by next Thursday, the end of the year’s third quarter. Gore is struggling both to raise money and to keep himself in good standing with the environmental community. One enviro said […]
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Senate Oils Industry's Hand
The Senate did a favor for oil companies yesterday, voting to prevent the Clinton administration from charging royalties based on market rates for oil and gas pumped from federal lands. By the Interior Department’s estimation, the companies are currently underpaying the government by as much as $68 million a year. The vote came as the […]
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Industry Oils Alaskan Land
BP Exploration pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally dumping hazardous wastes on Alaska’s North Slope and agreed to pay some $22 million to settle criminal and civil claims. Federal prosecutors say that a BP contractor dumped hundreds of barrels containing oil, paints, paint thinners, and solvents. Alaska’s North Slope is an environmentally sensitive area, and BP’s […]
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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 […]
