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Sherry, Sherry Quite Contrary

A group of Republican moderates stuck with Democratic lawmakers yesterday and submitted bills in the U.S. House and Senate to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, only two days […]

A Sony Disposition

A new law requiring manufacturers to recycle used refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, and air conditioners goes into effect next month in Japan. Most firms appear to be ready to take […]

Huge Grant

In what would be its largest grant to date, Ted Turner’s U.N. Foundation is proposing to give $10 million to preserve the world’s coral reefs. The foundation’s board is meeting […]

Onus on Us

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked world leaders yesterday to pick up the pace on protecting the environment. “We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too […]

The Fin-al Countdown

Environmentalists launched a yearlong campaign this week to persuade Singapore diners to stop eating shark’s fin soup, a popular delicacy in the country. To meet market demand, fishers slice fins […]

Undermined By the Under Mind

The European Union yesterday expressed disappointment with President Bush’s decision not to regulate carbon dioxide, and Japan said the decision could undermine the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Germany went […]

Whoah, Corn Doggy

A vegetarian-foods subsidiary of Kellogg’s announced a recall in the U.S. on Tuesday of all its meatless corn dogs after tests confirmed that some of them contained a genetically engineered […]

One Big Happy Nuclear Family

The U.S. nuclear power industry said yesterday that it produced more power in the year 2000 than ever before. The announcement came just one week after Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) […]

Butter Fly-cicles

The deaths of millions of monarch butterflies this month in Mexico may have been caused by a winter freeze, not pesticide-spraying by loggers, as one environmental group alleged last week. […]

This Leaves a Lott to Be Desired

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said this week that he’s prepared to take on Sen. John Kerry if the Democrat from Massachusetts follows through on a threat to […]