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A Strike at Snake Dams
A utility district in west-central Oregon this week became the first to back breaching of four federal dams on the lower Snake River to help restore endangered salmon runs. The utility sent a letter to the Clinton administration urging partial dam removal, asserting that breaching the dams represented the best way to save the salmon […]
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George W. Fission for a Position
Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R), the leading GOP presidential hopeful, is staking positions on controversial environmental issues in his home state. The Texas House is considering a bill that would allow old industrial plants that have been exempted from Clean Air Act regulations to ease into compliance voluntarily. Bush supports the bill, while enviros […]
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Better Red Than Dead?
Russia’s 147 million citizens are facing desperate health problems, in part because of the nation’s environmental degradation. In an upcoming issue of Policy Review, Harvard demographer Nicholas Eberstadt writes about Russia’s public health crisis, claiming that “No industrialized country has ever before suffered such a severe and prolonged deterioration during peacetime.” In the first half […]
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Republicanes Plan to Mocke Ale Goree
House Republicans are gearing up to ridicule Al Gore for his environmental leanings, hoping to make him the butt of late-night TV jokes just as Dan Quayle was. Today, several conservative House members plan to read on the House floor what they consider to be the most controversial sections of Gore’s 1992 book Earth in […]
