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WWF Body Slams Olympics
The Austrian, Italian, and Swiss arms of the World Wildlife Fund yesterday urged the International Olympic Committee to delay for a year its choice of venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics so environmental issues can be more carefully considered. WWF says that instead of choosing a host city, the IOC should choose a host region […]
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If It's Not One Blowup, It's Another
After spending 16 years and $489 million on part a plan to safely store millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production, the Energy Department has abandoned its efforts, according to a report released yesterday. Researchers had discovered in the early 1980s that the procedure being developed to concentrate the waste produced […]
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Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project
Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Tuesday, 1 Jun 1999 LAS VEGAS, N.M. It’s been just about a year since my wife and I packed up our house and our infant twins and […]
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Disheveled in the Deep Blue Sea
Many deep sea critters are in danger of starving to death, likely as a result of rising ocean temperatures, according to a study published recently in the journal Science. The food supply available for creatures residing in the deep dropped significantly between 1989 and 1996, say the study’s authors, perhaps because an increase in surface […]
