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Thank You Soooo Much, Corporate America!
Corporate America is patting its own back today on Earth Day, touting the fact that businesses have spent $1 trillion over the past 30 years on environmental cleanups. “The theme is: ‘Thank business for cleaning up the environment,'” said US Chamber of Commerce spokesperson Frank Coleman. Environmentalists are not buying the talk. “To the extent […]
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Sting Like a Butterfly
Julia “Butterfly” Hill, who has spent more than 16 months living in the branches of an ancient redwood tree that has been slated for logging, will be the “in-tree correspondent” for an environmental cable show. The first episode of “The Thin Green Line” will air today with an interview of Hill by the show’s host, […]
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Great, Danes!
Denmark is giving coal-fired power plants the boot and launching more renewable energy production as it moves to slash greenhouse gas emissions. The nation’s largest energy producer, the Elsam group, will officially close four of its old coal-fired units on July 1. In 1997, 64 percent of Denmark’s total electricity production came from coal; in […]
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Holey Ozone!
The level of ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere is dropping, primarily because of reductions of one solvent, methyl chloroform, which was phased out between 1996 and 1997, according to a report published in today’s issue of the journal Nature. The study indicates that the Montreal Protocol, the 1994 treaty to protect the ozone layer, is […]
