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U.N. Says Yugoslav Environment Still Da Bomb
NATO’s bombardment of Yugoslavia seems not to have caused significant environmental damage, U.N. officials and some environmental groups said yesterday. Still, an official from the U.N. Environment Programme will continue to assess the situation during a visit to Yugoslavia this week as part of a larger U.N. humanitarian team. Yugoslavia has claimed that massive amounts […]
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Habitat's Where Babbitt's At
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to protect 68 threatened and endangered species living in southern Florida. Babbitt said the government hopes the plan will become a model for approaching species protection on a comprehensive, regional, multi-species level rather than with a piecemeal approach. Under the plan, the feds would work with […]
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About Face … Backward, March
The U.S. auto industry is doing an about-face on the environment. Sort of. A six-article opus in the New York Times today focuses on the steps the industry is taking to improve its environmental record, mostly due to the perception that green issues are becoming increasingly important to customers. But the automakers still protest U.S. […]
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Airing Their Opinions
The editorial pages of the nation’s major papers weighed in this week on an appeals court decision released last Friday that invalidated air quality standards for ozone and particulates approved by Pres. Clinton in 1997. The New York Times and Washington Post criticized the ruling, with the Times saying it has “shaky constitutional underpinnings” and […]
