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A Bush in Hand Is Worth … Oh, About $521,714
Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) raked in 79 percent of the money donated to presidential candidates by oil, auto, and electric power interests in the first nine months of […]
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The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly on the Fish
Under pressure from enviros, the feds yesterday proposed an endangered species listing for wild Atlantic salmon in eight Maine rivers. Thousands of salmon once swam up the rives from the […]
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U'Wa Get Pumped Up
About 200 U’wa Indians in northeast Colombia seized an area on Tuesday that they claim is an ancestral homeland to prevent Occidental Petroleum Corp. from oil drilling there. Occidental won […]
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A Connecticut Attorney in King Coal's Court
Following the lead of federal and New York officials, Connecticut’s attorney general said yesterday that he intends to sue 16 coal-burning power plants in five Midwestern and Southern states over […]
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Fleet Needs Enema
California’s schoolkids are breathing unhealthful exhaust spewed by diesel school buses that are among the nation’s oldest and most polluting, according to a report being released today by the Coalition […]
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Montanans are now proud owners of the right to a clean environment
Should citizens in the United States have a constitutional right to clean air and clean water, just as they have rights to free speech and freedom of religion? That’s the […]
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I Wish They All Could Be California Governors
California announced yesterday that it is filing suit against the feds over the issue of offshore oil drilling, demanding more of a say in decisions that will affect some of […]
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Ice, Ice Maybe
The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has thinned by about 40 percent in the last 20 to 40 years, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. […]
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Meriwether Friend
The Sierra Club is launching a five-year campaign to protect and restore millions of acres of wildlands along the route traveled nearly 200 years ago by the explorers Meriwether Lewis […]
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Without Mangroves, India is Swamped
Rapid logging of the mangrove forest that stretches across coastal areas in India’s southeastern state of Orissa seems to have contributed to the terrible destruction caused by an October 29 […]
