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Chinese Hot and Sour over Pollution
China’s top environmental official said today that the nation is still plagued by serious environmental degradation, though continuing efforts are being made to keep it in check. China, which is home to nine of the world’s 10 most polluted cities, is instituting a plan that requires 49 cities to reduce their air pollution to 1995 […]
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A Beacon in the Smog
The EPA, blocked by two recent court orders from implementing new clean air standards and rules, unveiled a scaled-back approach yesterday for cracking down on polluting power plants and industrial facilities. The approach relies on petitions filed by four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania — that said they could not meet even […]
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No Crocodile Tears
The endangered American crocodile seems to have made a strong comeback in the last 20 years, researchers say. When it was listed as an endangered species in 1975, there were only 20 nesting females living within a 20-square-mile area in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Now there are an estimated 500 crocodiles in south […]
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Wilderness
Before July 4, the Clinton administration plans to ask Congress to set aside as wilderness 5 million acres of land that now lie within 17 national parks, prohibiting new development and roads. The biggest single change under the plan would give wilderness protection to more than 90 percent Yellowstone National Park’s 2.2 million acres, as […]
