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Is This Bush Green?
Loud cries to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge aside, the Bush administration has taken some steps to make industry edgy, and some right-wingers are growing nervous that Dubya’s […]
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Kiss My Arsenic
Pressure-treated wood used to build playgrounds, decks, and docks is leaking arsenic at unsafe levels, according to an investigation by the St. Petersburg Times. The arsenic comes from a pesticide […]
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Al Thieme, Cascadia Wild!
Al Thieme is an animal tracker, naturalist educator, and executive director for Cascadia Wild!, a conservation and environmental education organization. Currently, he is searching for forest carnivores in Mt. Hood […]
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U. Be Illin'
The U.S. EPA has a new target for its investigations — universities and colleges that aren’t complying with environmental laws. “Our inspectors have not been on one campus where they […]
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J. Griles Bandit
The Bush administration announced yesterday that the president will nominate coal and energy industry lobbyist J. Steven Griles to serve as second-in-command at the Interior Department. Griles first got to […]
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I Love Parris in the Springtime
Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening (D) today created the country’s first statewide commission to ensure that poor and minority communities don’t bear the brunt of environmental pollution. Glendening said, “There are […]
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Analyze This!
The Canadian government is failing to adequately protect its citizens from toxic chemicals, according to a report released today by an advisory group to Prime Minister Jean Chretien. The report […]
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Put This in Your Pipeline and Smoke It
Guess what? A survey paid for by oil-happy Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) found that 75 percent of Alaskans support opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. […]
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Exploratory Committee
The governors of Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming told the U.S. House Resources Committee yesterday that they would welcome more oil, gas, and coal exploration in their states. The committee’s chair, […]
