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Wavy Gravy
Major Canadian cities dump more than 1 trillion liters of sewage with little or no treatment into oceans and other bodies of water each year, according to a study by […]
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Amazon.Gone
The Amazon rainforest will be cleared within 80 years if multinational companies continue to log at the current rate, Greenpeace warned yesterday in its annual report. Illegal commercial logging is […]
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Flaky Tuna Rules!
A coalition of environmental groups plans to file suit today against the feds, seeking to overturn what they see as a weakening of labeling standards for “dolphin-safe” tuna. In April, […]
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All They Hate is Dust in the Wind
Leaders from Los Angeles and California’s Owens Valley today will sign an agreement to resolve a bitter, long-running dispute over water and dust. In 1913, a Los Angeles-bound aqueduct began […]
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Finders Keepers, Polluters Weepers
Citizens across the U.S. have formed 35 “water keeper” programs, in which volunteers monitor pollution in rivers, bays, and channels and along coastlines, working to boost enforcement of environmental laws. […]
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License to Kill
Police forces across England are on alert after environmentalists threatened to sabotage four new government testing sites for genetically modified crops. The British government, saying it was committed to openness […]
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Paper or … Uh, Paper?
The South African government is considering a ban on plastic bags as a way to help clean up its littered streets and landscapes, Mohammed Valli Moosa, the nation’s new environment […]
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Ford Cells Out
Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it would develop an experimental fuel-cell car powered by a hydrogen-burning internal combustion engine by year’s end. The company, which just opened a hydrogen […]
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Psychiatric Help 5 Cents
Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), whom environmentalists love to hate, has taken to denouncing gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, and some enviros are reacting with schizophrenic behavior. While the Sierra Club in […]
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The Unkindest Cut
The $792 billion tax-cut plan, passed by the GOP-controlled Congress and under veto threat from Pres. Clinton, would give more than $1 billion in subsidies over the next five years […]
