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Brenda Morehouse, Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development
Brenda Morehouse is manager of the Pembina Institute’s new environmental activism website, EcoAction.ca, and senior editor for ClimateChangeSolutions.com. Sunday, 18 Feb 2001 OTTAWA, Ontario Me and Lou, at work. This […]
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A review of Powder Burn
A little over two years ago, fire swept through five buildings and four ski lifts in Vail, Colo., causing more than $12 million in damage, upending a small town already reeling from enormous change, and eventually introducing the word ecoterrorism into the mainstream lexicon.
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Soil Ain't Green
Just 16 percent of the world’s farmlands are free of problems like chemical contamination, acidity, salinity, and poor drainage, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute […]
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Natural Dying Killers
The number of orcas whales living off the San Juan Islands in Washington has dropped 15 percent in the last five years and contamination from industrial chemicals in the region’s […]
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Credit Cads
Okay, give the Bushies some, ahem, credit — the U.S. EPA under President Bush is likely to build on at least one other environmental initiative that gained momentum under former […]
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They've Got a Little List
One environmental order by the Clinton administration is likely to go unchallenged by the Bush administration: The decision last fall by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service not to add […]
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The Capital Schlepps
The Sierra Club sued the U.S. EPA yesterday for extending the deadline for the Washington metro area to meet federal air pollution limits for ozone. The area missed the original […]
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We Who Are About to Pollute Cellucci You
Enviros are crying foul that Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci (R) is considering gutting pollution limits for the state’s dirtiest power plants. To great fanfare last May, Cellucci announced a plan […]
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Speedy Delivery
FedEx Express asked auto manufacturers this week to submit proposals for a commercial delivery truck that has 90 percent less emissions and is 50 percent more fuel-efficient than current models. […]
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Snow Mobilization
Snowmobilers are rushing to Yellowstone this winter to experience what might be the second-to-last year snowmobiles are allowed in the national park. The Clinton administration in December issued a rule […]
