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The Bonneville Horror
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) on Wednesday said the Bonneville Power Administration and other federal agencies were not fulfilling their obligations to help salmon in the midst of a drought that has caused electricity prices to soar. In recent weeks, the BPA has twice declared power emergencies that allow the agency and the U.S. Army […]
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The Fool on Capitol Hill
Some Labor Party members in the U.K. are publicly deriding U.S. President Bush as the “toxic Texan” and “the fool on Capitol Hill” for his stance on climate change. In fact, the Bush administration, by all reports, has been astonished by the intense reaction around the world to its decision to withdraw from the Kyoto […]
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Their Side of the Mountain
A federal appeals panel earlier this week dismissed a lower court’s ruling that mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia violates environmental law by burying hundreds of miles of streams under tons of rock and earth. The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found unanimously that the plaintiffs in the citizens suit against […]
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Um. Haven't We Learned Anything?
People across the former Soviet Union offered their prayers yesterday to victims of the Chernobyl disaster, 15 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government says that more than 70,000 people were fully disabled by the accident and more than 4,000 who took part in the clean-up have died. At […]
