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For He's a Jolly Good Felon
Federal prosecutors are now charging about three times as many people for environmental crimes as they were 10 years ago, and the EPA is sending about four times as many criminal referrals to the Justice Department. And an increasing number of polluters are being punished with jail terms instead of just fines. Last summer, the […]
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Wheeler Dealer
Just in time for Earth Day, Al Gore is trying to burnish his green image. Today he travels to Detroit on behalf of the administration to announce a new deal under which heavy-duty engine and truck companies will produce more fuel-efficient buses, trucks, and 18-wheelers. Monday he announced new proposed drinking water rules. Tomorrow, Gore […]
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Adding Injury to Insult
Two environmental protestors have been injured this week while trying to interfere with the gray whale hunt that the Makah native tribe in Washington state started up a few days ago. Under a 1997 deal, the U.S. is allowing the Makahs to kill up to five gray whales a year. In a highly publicized and […]
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Extra Credit
A World Bank emissions trading program that will finance clean energy projects in developing countries has generated more money and more government and corporate interest than expected, and the bank hopes to expand it. About $135 million has been pledged to the program by 15 corporations, including BP Amoco and six Japanese electric power companies, […]
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How green is your pleasure machine?
They be jammin’. When you look at U.S. transportation habits, you start to wonder where in the world we’re all going, and why we’re working so hard to get there. The average household makes more than six car trips per day, each averaging nine miles. With busier schedules, we are each spending an average of […]
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Spencer for Hire
From 1995 to 2000, the auto industry gave more than twice as much in campaign contributions to senators who voted against possible new fuel efficiency standards as it gave to senators who voted for them, according to a new report by the group Public Campaign. Since 1997, auto manufacturers, dealers, and unions have donated nearly […]
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Rudolph, the Brown-Nosed Rainmaker?
Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday called on her opponent in the New York Senate race, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R), to return a $100,000 soft-money donation from a company she called the “number-one polluter in America.” The money was donated by the Renco Group, which owns a Utah company that federal officials have identified […]
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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 […]
