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Paper Chase Gets Some Results
International Paper Co., the world’s largest paper company and one of the biggest private landowners in the U.S., has hired an outside firm to verify that its forest-management practices are environmentally sound, the company will announce today. Pressure is growing on the timber and paper industry to adopt sustainable logging practices, and International Paper said […]
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No Take-Backs!
The European Parliament is backing off from stringent draft legislation that would have required automakers to take back old cars and bear the full cost of recycling or reusing them by 2006. Lawmakers are now considering a plan that would split disposal costs between manufacturers, car owners, and scrap yards. The more strict draft law […]
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The Pen Is Mightier Than the Swordfish
In a move applauded by enviros, a U.S. federal judge yesterday banned swordfish boats from a 1 million square-mile area of the Pacific Ocean while the government determines whether the vessels are pushing sea turtles to extinction. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed in February by the Center for Marine Conservation and the Turtle […]
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Desert — Rats!
Nearly 58,000 square miles of land, an area larger than Greece, are turned to desert each year, affecting more than 1 billion people and forcing many of them to flee their homes in search of food and work. Officials from more than 150 nations will try to address the problem this week at the U.N. […]
