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If It Weren't for Those Medaling Kids …
Next month’s Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, have been billed as the “Green Games,” but Greenpeace says Olympic organizers deserve only a bronze medal for their efforts to make the games eco-friendly. Organizers pledged to make this Olympics the greenest ever, and Greenpeace acknowledges that they have. The group praised the use of renewable power; […]
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Gore in the Stocks
As President Clinton sang Al Gore’s praises yesterday to kick off the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, a few thousand protestors raised their voices outside the convention hall, many of them calling on Gore to divest his family of shares in Occidental Petroleum Corp. Environmental and human rights activists are criticizing L.A.-based Occidental for […]
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Who Were Those Masked Men?
Hundreds of NATO peacekeepers wearing surgical masks shut down a lead smelter in Kosovo yesterday, citing environmental dangers caused by its emissions, which have been measured at levels 200 times those accepted by the World Health Organization. A number of outraged local residents threw rocks and sticks at the troops to protest the closing of […]
