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Eco-Visionaries or Survivalist Kooks? You Decide
Solar power companies around the U.S. are getting a boost in sales from people who fear the impact of the Y2K problem. Some speculate that the millennium bug will cause massive failures in the nation’s power grid, though electric companies claim they have the situation under control. In another Y2K-related development, the French Institute of […]
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Don't Keep on Truckin'
The feds may make a fundamental shift in the way they regulate air pollution from factories by starting to consider the exhaust from truck traffic in and out of industrial sites as part of a factory’s pollution. The EPA won’t make a final decision until this fall about the proposed rules, which would make it […]
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Meshuggena!
Israeli farmers are refusing to cut back their water use by 40 percent despite government orders that are intended to get the country through a drought year. The government has offered to pay $39 million to compensate some 30,000 farmers for losses they would incur by reducing irrigation, but the farmers are demanding $73.3 million. […]
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Home, Home of Deranged
The state of Montana can continue to kill bison that wander outside Yellowstone National Park, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The state is afraid that the bison will infect cattle with the disease brucellosis. More than 1,200 bison have been shot or shipped off to slaughter in the last three years. Enviros argue that […]
