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First Crack at the WIPP
A truck bearing 42 barrels of radioactive waste from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory hit the road yesterday, the first shipment from outside New Mexico to head to the recently opened Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. About 4,900 more shipments from INEEL containing waste generated during production of nuclear weapons will […]
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Take the Lead and Run
The Conservation Law Foundation is drawing flak for setting up a business arm that is pushing an additive to clean up gasoline in countries that haven’t yet banned lead, and is planning to share in the profits from the additive’s sale. Critics say that by promoting private, profit-seeking ventures, CLF will ruin its reputation as […]
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Ford's New Business Plan Is Junk
Ford is motoring into the junk business with a plan to acquire auto dumps across North America and build a massive international car parts recycling company that sells its wares over the Internet. The move is intended to generate $1 billion a year in revenue while following Ford Chair William Ford Jr.’s pledge of environmental […]
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Chinese Have Dim Summary of Environment
Environmental protection now tops the list of public worries among China’s city-dwellers, according to a survey by China Social Survey Centre. About 66 percent of 785 urban residents questioned expressed concern about air and water pollution and soil erosion.
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Crossing Swords Over Fish
The feds clamped down on overfishing in Atlantic and Gulf waters yesterday, announcing tough new restrictions on fishing for sharks, tuna, marlin, sailfish, spearfish, and other species. The plan, drawn up over the course of two years by the National Marine Fisheries Service, also makes an unprecedented month-long closure of some bluefin tuna fisheries off […]
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Giving New Meaning to National "Park"
Grand Canyon National Park is planning the dramatic step of banning most of the 1.5 million cars and buses that make their way through the park each year. As of 2002, visitors will be asked to leave their vehicles outside the park entrance and ride a light rail public transit system into the park.
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Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz — What a Weird Idea This Is
Researchers are planning an experiment this year to pipe liquid carbon dioxide into the Pacific Ocean at a depth of at least 1,000 feet to find out whether the ocean could serve as a massive storage bin for CO2, a greenhouse gas. Scientists say that putting the CO2 under high pressure as a liquid could […]
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It's Not Curiosity That's Killing These Cats
A plan to reintroduce the lynx to southwestern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains is running into some grave problems — four of the 13 cats released in February and March have died of starvation and a fifth was recaptured in an emaciated state. The project of the Colorado Division of Wildlife had initially intended to move […]
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Song for the Bluefin Tuna
Carl Safina is a fanatic fisherman. He’s especially fanatic about ocean fish, which got him interested in seabirds, which got him into serious biology, which got him infuriated about what he was seeing in the fisheries, which got him to found the Audubon Society’s Living Oceans Program. All of which got him to write Song […]
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Handsome Ransom for Ignoble Chernobyl
Ukraine reneged on a pledge last week to shut down the last working nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, saying that the reactor would continue to operate until Western nations cough up $1.2 billion needed to complete two new replacement reactors. Today, on the 13th anniversary of the devastating nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine is still haunted […]
