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Revenge of the Filth
Space is getting awfully dirty Litter encircles our planet, in the form of thousands — or even millions — of bits of space debris: abandoned satellites and rockets, chunks blown apart by collisions, radioactive fuel, and that one blue sock you lost. “It’s sort of a classic environmental problem, not unlike air pollution or water […]
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Coast Riposte
House blocks attempt to lift ban on coastal drilling; more to come An attempt to weaken the U.S. moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling — established by Congress in 1982 and renewed every year since — was blocked yesterday in the House by a 262-157 vote. However, drilling opponents view it as just the […]
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In film short, Mark Dowie plugs plan to boost funding for grassroots activism
Mark Dowie, a prizewinning investigative journalist, was talking about the need to revamp American environmentalism long before the Reapers declared it dead. His Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1996 book Losing Ground cast a critical eye on green activists’ failing tactics, and his more recent work — encapsulated in a film short below — focuses on myopic environmental […]
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We All Go Down Together
FBI calls “eco-terrorists” top domestic threat; Inhofe licks his chops The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened a hearing on “eco-terrorism” yesterday, anxious to warn the nation of a rising danger that has already killed … well, nobody. Despite the unimpressive body count, a growing number of property crimes make fringe ecological and animal-rights […]
