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White House Vs. Greenhouse
Pres. Clinton today will tell the federal government to hop to it when he issues an executive order calling on government agencies to use less energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent from 1990 levels by 2010. The U.S. government is the world’s largest energy consumer, spending more than $8 billion a year. Federal […]
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Golden Boy Eyes Golden Gate
Former Sierra Club Pres. Adam Werbach is eying the mayorship of San Francisco and plans to decide in the next two weeks whether to make a run this November. The 26-year-old environmental wunderkind, who still serves on the Sierra Club board, has hooked up with a campaign consultant who once worked in Bill Clinton’s “war […]
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Too Often Is Heard a Discouraging Word
Americans are discouraged by environmental problems and are losing interest in them, according to a new review of public opinion surveys. In 1989, 51 percent of Americans worried a great deal about the ozone hole and 35 percent about global warming. In 1997, those figures fell to 40 percent and 24 percent. Water pollution is […]
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Spanish Fly in Face of Energy Tax
A European energy tax and other measures to combat climate change could create up to 1.9 million new jobs in the European Union, according to a study released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. Efforts to introduce a Europe-wide energy tax have been stymied by nations such as Spain that fear it would curb competitiveness […]
