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Oil's Not Well
A tanker carrying 8 million gallons of diesel oil broke in half during a storm yesterday and began leaking oil off the northwest coast of France. Officials at the Brest Port Authority, 60 miles away, estimated that between 600,000 and 1.5 million gallons of the oil had been spilled so far, and said it would […]
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Amazing Race
If a Republican had to be elected president, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would be the first pick for enviro heavyweight Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In Arizona yesterday, Kennedy attacked the enviro record of GOP presidential frontrunner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, and said that he also considered McCain’s overall history on the environment to be […]
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A Friend of the Devil Is No Friend of Mine
Speaking yesterday before the National Association of Manufacturers (can you say “polluters”?), Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH), the new chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called for scrapping enviro laws that don’t work and for more flexibility in regulations considered onerous by business. Smith said to his industry chums, “You are good stewards, […]
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Drink, Poop, and Be Merry, for Next Year You'll Be Dry
Drinking water and sewage facilities are threatened by the Y2K computer bug, and lax oversight by the feds and industry are to blame, according to a reported released by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Y2K & Society. The report authors, based on surveys conducted by such groups as the American Water […]
