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Paper Company Voluntarily Does Good Thing
The Westvaco papermaking company today will announce a five-year deal with the Nature Conservancy that will let the environmental group inspect all of the company’s 1.3 million acres of forestland and help designate areas where logging will be restricted. The two parties will agree jointly on a management plan for the land, including the amount […]
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Carcinogens Without Borders
Latin American nations are gradually restricting or banning use of the most dangerous pesticides, but enforcement of rules is lax. For example, in Colombia, the hazardous insecticide endosulfan used in coffee production was prohibited in 1995, but officials say it is still widely used. In Brazil, which has one of the strictest pesticide laws in […]
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Oh, That? It Was an April Fool's Joke on GM
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a website has the right to publish information from confidential Ford documents about the automaker’s efforts to build vehicles that emit far less pollution and have significantly better fuel efficiency than current models. The case is awkward for Ford because the company is now lobbying against tighter emissions and […]
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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 […]
