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UK + Y2K = YUCK
The UK may face widespread pollution problems at the turn of the millennium because its industries are failing to adequately address the Y2K computer bug. More than half of 400 companies surveyed by the nation’s Environment Agency have not overcome potential millennium bug issues. Computers play a key role in controlling most industrial processes, including […]
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Starting Down a Slippery (North) Slope
Despite protests and a lawsuit filed by environmentalists, the U.S. government yesterday sold oil drilling rights to environmentally sensitive but oil-rich land on Alaska’s North Slope for $105 million. Enviro groups, including the Sierra Club and Wilderness Society, have a suit pending against the federal government over the drilling leases, claiming that the environmental impact […]
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Fish Can't Scale Walls of Death
International fishing authorities are cracking down on illegal drift-netting, an environmentally destructive method using nets that are more than 1.5 miles long and that indiscriminately catch all fish and marine mammals in their paths. Though driftnets — referred to by enviros as “walls of death” — were banned in international waters by the U.N. in […]
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Domo Aregato, Mr. Clean-Auto
Japanese automakers have reached a tentative agreement with the European Commission to voluntarily raise the fuel-efficiency and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of cars sold in Europe. Europe’s own automakers voluntarily pledged last year to increase efficiency to about 48 miles per gallon. Attempts to reach a similar agreement with Korean car manufacturers have stalled […]
