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A Monica You Want to Hear About
Leaders of Santa Monica, Calif., declared yesterday that they are fed up with dirty air caused by coal-fired power plants and will power city-owned buildings with electricity generated from geothermal sources. The city is the first in a deregulated market to buy all its power from renewable sources, according to Global Green USA. Santa Monica […]
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Eh, B.C., You Get a "D" on Salmon
Salmon runs are rapidly declining in British Columbia mimicking patterns in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, according to speakers yesterday at a fish habitat symposium in Vancouver, B.C. Salmon are suffering as B.C. is being logged, farmed, and urbanized, and as fisheries protection and research remains underfunded. The Canadian and B.C. governments are locked in a […]
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Baby, You Can't Drive My Car
Hundreds of miles of roads in British town and city centers are being put off-limits to cars as local authorities make radical changes to transportation policies. Measures are also being put in place to make life more difficult and expensive for drivers in hopes that they will abandon their cars and get around by walking, […]
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Spore Judgment
Hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria — enough to destroy the world many times over — was buried in an unsafe fashion on a remote island in the inland Aral Sea toward the end of the Cold War, reports the New York Times in a front-page expose. Soviet officials hastily shipped it to the area, […]
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WWF Body Slams Olympics
The Austrian, Italian, and Swiss arms of the World Wildlife Fund yesterday urged the International Olympic Committee to delay for a year its choice of venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics so environmental issues can be more carefully considered. WWF says that instead of choosing a host city, the IOC should choose a host region […]
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If It's Not One Blowup, It's Another
After spending 16 years and $489 million on part a plan to safely store millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production, the Energy Department has abandoned its efforts, according to a report released yesterday. Researchers had discovered in the early 1980s that the procedure being developed to concentrate the waste produced […]
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What's the President Worth? For Doing What?
Driving home the other night, I heard a snatch of radio discussion about whether we’re paying the president enough. If I understood the argument while dodging traffic, it seems that corporate executive salaries have soared so high that the president’s salary is puny by comparison. Company CEOs earn millions. Michael Eisner of Disney earns in […]
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Bird in the Hand Worth Two for Bush?
While you were smoothing on suntan lotion or stoking the barbecue this weekend, Texas state legislators were madly finishing up work before their midnight May 31 deadline. Gov. George W. Bush‘s tax cuts and education initiatives got most of the attention, but we kept our gaze trained on the environmental bills likely to come up […]
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Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project
Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Tuesday, 1 Jun 1999 LAS VEGAS, N.M. It’s been just about a year since my wife and I packed up our house and our infant twins and […]
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Disheveled in the Deep Blue Sea
Many deep sea critters are in danger of starving to death, likely as a result of rising ocean temperatures, according to a study published recently in the journal Science. The food supply available for creatures residing in the deep dropped significantly between 1989 and 1996, say the study’s authors, perhaps because an increase in surface […]
