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Paint By the Numbers
Air quality officials and enviros on Friday announced a deal that would set an exact course for cleaning up smog in Los Angeles for the next 10 years and end a quarter of a century of costly feuds and litigation. Under the settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge, the South Coast […]
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What a Team!
Enviro and labor groups across the country are increasingly joining forces, most recently at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, to fight against globalization and the consolidation of economic power. In the past year, for example, Maine forest workers and enviros together protested the effects of NAFTA on the North Woods; blue-collar workers in […]
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Down the Hatch
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt today will ask Pres. Clinton to create at least four new national monuments, including two in Arizona and two in California. Some 1 million acres northwest of Grand Canyon National Park, tens of thousands of acres near Phoenix, 10,000 acres south of San Jose, and thousands of small, uninhabited islands off […]
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Such Stuff as Dreams Aren't Made On
My heartfelt advice to you: Never move. If you must move, never move to a place with lots of storage space, such as a farm full of old barns and sheds. If you must move to such a place, never move away from it. Guess what I’ve been doing for the last month? Right, moving […]
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What, a Team?
Celebs such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Pierce Brosnan, Ted Danson, Bette Midler, and Patrick Stewart have all taken on environmental causes, and enviros are welcoming the help, though they acknowledge that the pairing of indulgent Hollywood and the more simplicity-oriented environmental movement is sometimes an odd one. Denis Hayes, chair and CEO of Earth Day Network, […]
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The Dregs
After years of research, Starbucks has abandoned a prototype coffee cup designed to be more enviro-friendly. The world’s largest coffee retailer had been working to eliminate the need to double cup or use corrugated paper sleeves outside hot cups to protect customers’ hands. But those plans are now down the drain. The company didn’t get […]
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Oil's Not Well
A tanker carrying 8 million gallons of diesel oil broke in half during a storm yesterday and began leaking oil off the northwest coast of France. Officials at the Brest Port Authority, 60 miles away, estimated that between 600,000 and 1.5 million gallons of the oil had been spilled so far, and said it would […]
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It's Miller Time in Cali
Bill Bradley has not been particularly competitive with Vice Pres. Gore in the world of endorsements and establishment support within the Democratic Party. In fact, he’s been roundly trounced. Gore boasts scores of supporters in Congress and among various and sundry party potentates scattered across the country. Gore also leads in endorsements from labor unions […]
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Amazing Race
If a Republican had to be elected president, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would be the first pick for enviro heavyweight Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In Arizona yesterday, Kennedy attacked the enviro record of GOP presidential frontrunner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, and said that he also considered McCain’s overall history on the environment to be […]
