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Woe, Canada
U.S. companies are sending increasing amounts of hazardous waste to Ontario, Canada, to circumvent strong and costly disposal rules in the U.S., says a Canadian enviro group. The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy this week called on Environment Minister David Anderson to review Ontario’s hazardous waste regulations, and, if he found them insufficient, […]
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Republicans Putting on Airs
A mysterious group calling itself Republicans for Clean Air is spending nearly $2 million to run a TV ad in big primary states that blasts Sen. John McCain’s environmental record and claims that Texas Gov. George W. Bush has notable green achievements. The organization is unknown to political professionals, environmentalists, and the Federal Elections Commission. […]
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Green Beans
An increasing number of coffee growers in Latin America are going green, abandoning chemical fertilizers and pesticides and growing their coffee in the shade of native trees that provide habitat for migrating songbirds. Several hundred small-scale coffee growers in southern Mexico recently formed a cooperative and adopted green growing methods after finding that they could […]
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New Mexico ranchers are howling over reintroduction efforts
Two years after the first 11 Mexican gray wolves were released to much fanfare in the Apache National Forest of southeastern Arizona, and a year after an additional 22 wolves were freed in 1998, only seven remain in the wild. A lone wolf. Photo: J. & K. Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The problems […]
