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A Rising Tide Floods All Islands
Small island nations throughout the world are threatened by climate change, toxic waste, and excessive tourism, island leaders said yesterday during a U.N. session in New York focusing on their […]
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Pew! Climate Change Stinks
Global warming could have serious effects on both the quality and quantity of freshwater, according to a report released yesterday by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. In mountainous […]
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World Bank Plays Shell Game
Enviros yesterday called on the World Bank to deny funding for a proposed 650-mile pipeline that would carry oil from landlocked Chad to the Cameroon coast, cutting through a tropical […]
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Annie Berthold-Bond, author
Annie Berthold-Bond is the author of Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living and Clean & Green. She is also the creator of the betterbasics.com website. […]
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Take This Blob and Shove It
A giant blob of radioactive waste is expanding inside a million-gallon tank buried at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state, and the Department of Energy and site contractor Lockheed […]
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Environmentalism: It's Dyn-o-mite!
Eco-terrorism — arson, bombings, and sabotage done in the name of protecting the environment — is on the rise in the American West. At least 100 major acts of eco-terrorism […]
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Justice Folks
Environmental justice is becoming a higher priority in California as more Latino legislators come to power and try to improve the kinds of neighborhoods in which they grew up, where […]
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Solar Sells
Citizens who generate their own electricity by solar power or other means could get credits on their electric bills for feeding excess power to utilities, under a bill unveiled on […]
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Prez to Ride Out Storm?
Pres. Clinton plans to stand tough this year against congressional Republicans who have attached at least 39 anti-environmental riders to government spending bills. In past years, Clinton has caved in […]
