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Bush Whacked
Vice Pres. Al Gore accused GOP presidential frontrunner Gov. George W. Bush yesterday of letting Texas become the most polluted state in the nation, number one in toxic releases into the air, water, and soil, according to EPA numbers, and home to Houston, the city with the worst smog in the country. A Bush spokesperson […]
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Poly Wants a Cleanup
General Electric will cough up more than $250 million to clean the Housatonic River near its plant in Pittsfield, Mass., to settle government charges that the company polluted the river with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances from the 1930s until 1977. But the company’s not off the hook yet. New York’s attorney general […]
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Bummin' Range
Much to the chagrin of enviros, Congress has given the military primary responsibility for managing more than 1.6 million acres of the Sonoran desert in southwestern Arizona, encompassing most of the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range. Although a law signed Wednesday requires the military to work with the Interior Department on a management plan, enviros […]
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No More Sing Sing for Ling Ling
China yesterday announced plans to release giant pandas born and raised in captivity into the wild in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species. Under a pilot program to be launched in 2005, two to three giant pandas are expected to be released each year, the first such releases ever attempted. Only […]
