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Mountin' Opposition
Twenty-three green-leaning House Republicans sent a letter to President Clinton earlier this month calling on him to stand firm against the destructive practice of mountaintop-removal mining. A federal judge ruled last year that the mining technique, which has decimated a number of West Virginia mountains and buried 500 to 1,000 miles of the state’s streams […]
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Life's a Beach and Then You Die
Fourteen whales beached themselves and eight of them died soon after the Navy conducted sonar exercises off the northern Bahamas on March 15. The Navy said yesterday that there was no evidence to link the whale deaths to its sonar tests, but enviros called for the suspension of the exercises. Marine biologist Ken Balcomb of […]
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Jet Blacklist
The National Park Service announced yesterday that next month it will begin banning Jet Skis and other personal motorized watercraft in 66 national parks, seashores, and recreation areas. But the machines will still be allowed in 10 national recreation areas where they are heavily used; 11 other areas will have two years to phase them […]
