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Changing Riders in Midstream
Senate Republicans agreed last night to eliminate or change a number of anti-environmental riders that have been tacked onto the Interior Department spending bill, clearing the way for agreement with the White House on a budget deal. GOP leaders consented to allow the feds to charge oil and gas companies a more fair, significantly higher […]
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Cold Discomfort
Climate change is threatening polar bears along Hudson Bay with starvation by shortening their hunting season, according to a study by the Canadian Wildlife Service published in the journal Arctic. In the past 20 years, the sea ice season on Hudson Bay has been reduced by three weeks, giving the bears in the area less […]
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Fishful Thinking
Salmon on the Snake River could be saved without breaching dams, according to a draft federal report to be released today, but agencies and citizens in the Northwest would need to make some drastic and potentially painful changes. Stringent controls on fishing, development, logging, and grazing would be needed throughout the Columbia Basin to save […]
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Grime and No Punishment
Enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws under the Clinton administration has often been haphazard and lax, and many major polluters have been able to operate with little fear of punishment, according to a Boston Globe analysis of seven years of records. Larger companies, particularly those with political muscle, are often treated differently than smaller businesses, […]
