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Commitment Ceremony
After a weekend-long meeting in Trieste, Italy, environmental ministers from Russia and the world’s top seven industrialized countries pledged yesterday that they would continue to work together to fight global warming. In a formal declaration, the ministers wrote, “We commit ourselves … to strive to reach agreement on outstanding political issues and to ensure in […]
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Getting Left Behind
Ralph Nader is working with the Green Party to run as many as 80 candidates for Congress in 2002, twice the number that ran in 2000. He said the Green candidacies will help to move the Democratic Party to the left, though he acknowledges the tactic could prevent the Dems from winning control of the […]
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G-8 Is Enough
All eyes are on the U.S. as environmental ministers from the Group of Eight, the major industrialized countries plus Russia, begin a weekend meeting today in Trieste, Italy, to discuss global warming. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman indicated today that the Bush administration was rethinking the country’s stance on the issue and did not […]
