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Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) has launched “Project Evergreen,” an effort to assemble a list of anti-environmental initiatives that a new Republican president could undertake without congressional approval. Last week he wrote to conservative think tankers, industry folks, and others, asking for help in thinking up “executive orders and rule changes that a new president […]
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Hungary Thirsty for Clean Water
More than a month after a disastrous cyanide spill at a gold mine in Romania killed hundreds of tons of fish in the Tisza and Danube rivers and polluted the drinking water of millions of Eastern Europeans, the affected ecosystems are only now beginning to show signs of recovery. In Hungary, which was most hard-hit […]
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A River Runs — Sue It!
The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out an appeal by four conservative Western lawmakers who had challenged President Clinton’s authority to designate “American Heritage Rivers” for special federal assistance and funding. After Clinton created the Heritage Rivers program with an executive order in 1997, four members of Congress filed suit, contending that the initiative violated […]
