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Don’t Be a Bad Sport
New Study Says Recreational Fishing Harms Endangered Species When it comes to overfishing and the depletion of stocks of threatened and endangered fish species, the focus is usually on commercial fishing. But a new study published today in the journal Science claims that recreational fishing has a much larger impact on those stocks than previously […]
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Smears of a Clown
Auto Industry-Backed PR Firm Claims California Emissions Regs Will Kill A new ad campaign by the Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America uses “Squeezy the Clown” to warn that proposed carbon-dioxide emissions regulations in California would force automakers to (gasp!) build smaller cars, which in turn will lead to increased traffic fatalities. (You see, they […]
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Shell
Nigeria Hits Shell With $1.5 Billion Pollution Claim The Nigerian parliament has hit Shell with a $1.5 billion claim after the Ijaw tribe of the Niger Delta demanded compensation for health and economic hardship caused by the company’s polluting operations. The oil giant admits to 262 oil spill incidents in Nigeria in 2002, and that […]
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Dismission: Impossible
New U.S. Government Report Acknowledges Human-Caused Climate Change President Bush famously dismissed a 2002 U.S. government report that acknowledged the human causes of climate change as something “put out by the bureaucracy.” Well, it looks like the bureaucracy’s at it again: A new administration report to Congress indicates that human production of heat-trapping greenhouse gases […]
