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Two for the Show
In their first major joint venture, the Sierra Club and Amnesty International yesterday launched a worldwide campaign to protect environmentalists from harassment, imprisonment, torture, and death. Activists most urgently needing international help, according to the groups, include enviros fighting a gas pipeline project in Burma, an oil pipeline in Chad and Cameroon, the Three Gorges […]
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Step on the Gas
The California Air Resources Board yesterday unanimously approved a new formula for the state’s gasoline that will eliminate the clean-fuel additive MTBE while maintaining strict air quality improvements. The board set 2003 as a deadline to have MTBE removed; most oil companies in the state plan to substitute it with ethanol, a more expensive octane […]
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It's Bloomin' 'ot!
Scientists in England say 1999 will almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded in the U.K., topping the previous high recorded in 1990 by about a tenth of a degree Celsius. Worldwide, 1999 is on track to be one of the 10 hottest years ever, but not nearly as warm as the blistering years […]
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Chew on This
Mattel, the world’s largest toymaker (think hourglass Barbies and those fun-to-chew-on Fisher-Price figures), has announced that it will begin a major push to make its plastic toys from more environmentally friendly, organically based materials such as oils and starches. The new materials would replace polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and a controversial group of chemicals called phthalates […]
