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Sulfuring Succotash!
The rate of global warming and sea level rise may be slightly higher in the next century than previously predicted, particularly in the U.S., according to a peer-reviewed analysis released yesterday by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The U.S. and other nations have been working to cut sulfur-dioxide pollution in the air, which […]
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GOP Ever-Glad to Block Gore
House Republicans are trying to withhold millions of dollars for a Florida Everglades restoration project backed by Vice Pres. Al Gore unless the Clinton administration can “ensure a restored ecosystem.” The Republicans also want to give the Interior Department a greater voice in the restoration project; now the Army Corps of Engineers has most of […]
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What Price No Success?
The public in 2000 will spend nearly $1 billion to save salmon in the Northwest. That according to a tabulation by the Portland Oregonian, with input from the six federal agencies and four states most involved in the restoration effort. Previously, nobody had attempted to track overall spending on the fish. Not surprisingly, right-leaning members […]
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Land of Milk and 2-D-Phenylanlanine
British babies feeding on breast milk could be receiving as much as 40 times World Heath Organization-recommended levels of a wide range of chemicals, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund in the U.K. The report identified 87 dioxins and 190 other chemicals from industrial pollution and pesticides, including possible endocrine-disrupters, in the […]
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DOJ-ing a Bullet?
The Justice Department on Monday requested that a full appeals court reconsider a recent ruling by a three-judge panel that overturned the Clinton administration’s clean-air standards for ozone and particulates. The DOJ hopes that the full court in Washington, D.C., agrees with its assessment that the panel was mistaken in concluding that the EPA lacked […]
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Sorry. Our Bad.
Scientists are becoming even more certain that humans are a key contributor to global warming, and some are even contending that human causes have been the most significant factor leading to warming in recent decades. A landmark 1995 report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found a “discernable human influence” on climate change, […]
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A Tarriffic Campaign
The Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, and other environmental groups yesterday announced a vigorous campaign against a proposed zero-tariff agreement on forest products in the World Trade Organization. The greens say that the proposal to eliminate tariffs on paper and wood products would increase consumption of wood in countries that now face high prices and […]
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Oh, That's Why They Call Them the Smokies
Average daily ozone pollution levels in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park over the last eight years have been nearly two times higher than pollution levels in Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, and Charlotte, according to a report by the National Parks and Conservation Association. Much of the pollution drifts over to the park from coal-fired power […]
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Ethnic Cleansing in the Chicken Coop
I didn’t plan it this way, but I have birds of three different sizes in my chicken coop, which is a bad idea. The coop has a floor-to-ceiling chicken-wire divider down the middle. On one side are 40 full-grown layers plus a handsome Buff Orpington rooster. All is peaceful there, except for a constant low […]
