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Injunction Junction, What's Your Function
A Seattle federal judge agreed yesterday to allow the National Marine Fisheries Service to implement its own restrictions on fishing in waters considered critical habitat for the endangered Steller sea lion, whose population has dropped 80 percent since the 1970s. The judge lifted his own injunction banning trawl fishing in the Bering Sea and Gulf […]
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Top of the POPs
Some 600 delegates from more than 120 countries began a week of talks yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to try to reach agreement on a treaty to ban 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs), chemicals such as PCBs and several pesticides that have been linked to cancer, birth defects, and genetic abnormalities in humans and wildlife. […]
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Blessed Art Thou, a Monk Swimming
Pres. Clinton announced the creation yesterday of the largest protected area in the U.S., 84 million underwater acres off of Hawaii. The new reserve extends 1,200 miles northwest of the main Hawaiian islands, encompassing atolls and islands and 70 percent of the nation’s coral reefs. Clinton’s order designates 4 million acres of the reserve for […]
