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Chris Baines, British freelance enviro
Chris Baines is a “freelance environmentalist” who lives in Wolverhampton, U.K., two hours north of London by train. He spends most of his time forging unholy alliances between nonprofit organizations, the corporate sector, the government, and local communities. He is planning a major Earth Day launch in the U.K. in 2000. Monday, 15 Nov 1999 […]
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Ugh of War
Federal agencies and the military have contaminated more than 60,000 sites across the U.S. and cleanup costs for the worst sites are expected to rise above $300 billion, dwarfing the cost of cleaning up contamination from private companies and making the U.S. government the nation’s worst polluter. Outside American borders, the U.S. military has contaminated […]
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Climate Change Campaign to Change Campaign Climate
The Sierra Club launched a campaign last week to make climate change a serious issue in the 2000 presidential race and to prod Pres. Clinton and other politicians to take action to address the problem. Kicking things off in New Hampshire, the site of the nation’s first primary, the group told residents that climate change […]
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Gore to Mine Environmental Vote
Promising to “put protection of the environment at the center of my presidency,” Vice Pres. Al Gore said yesterday that he would spend $2 billion over 10 years to combat urban sprawl and preserve open space if he were elected president. Gore, speaking at a fundraiser in Malibu, Calif., proposed offering $1 billion in tax […]
