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Interior Officials Kick Back?
When the Washington, D.C.-based Project on Government Oversight helped win a lawsuit last summer against Mobil Oil for paying less than it owed the Treasury for drilling on federal lands, it decided to share its payment with two federal officials, giving them $350,000 each for their years of arguing that oil companies had not been […]
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Hard of Herring
Underwater noise from supertankers, oil drilling, and military sonar may be drastically disrupting the living patterns of whales, seals, and other sea life, according to a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group contends that the noises could tamper with the creatures’ natural communication systems and cause them to deviate from […]
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Trade Remarks
Britain’s top 25 companies are joining together on Thursday to launch a greenhouse gas emissions-trading system in an attempt to persuade the government to drop plans for a carbon tax that could cost polluters as much as $3.2 billion a year. A spokesperson for BP Amoco said the companies, which also include Royal Dutch Shell […]
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Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine
Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Sunday, 27 Jun 1999 Tonight was a forum in our cohousing group, and it was my turn to facilitate. We are going through a difficult transition, which has created an […]
