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GOP Ever-Glad to Block Gore
House Republicans are trying to withhold millions of dollars for a Florida Everglades restoration project backed by Vice Pres. Al Gore unless the Clinton administration can “ensure a restored ecosystem.” […]
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What Price No Success?
The public in 2000 will spend nearly $1 billion to save salmon in the Northwest. That according to a tabulation by the Portland Oregonian, with input from the six federal […]
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Land of Milk and 2-D-Phenylanlanine
British babies feeding on breast milk could be receiving as much as 40 times World Heath Organization-recommended levels of a wide range of chemicals, according to a report from the […]
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DOJ-ing a Bullet?
The Justice Department on Monday requested that a full appeals court reconsider a recent ruling by a three-judge panel that overturned the Clinton administration’s clean-air standards for ozone and particulates. […]
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Sorry. Our Bad.
Scientists are becoming even more certain that humans are a key contributor to global warming, and some are even contending that human causes have been the most significant factor leading […]
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A Tarriffic Campaign
The Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, and other environmental groups yesterday announced a vigorous campaign against a proposed zero-tariff agreement on forest products in the World Trade Organization. The greens […]
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Oh, That's Why They Call Them the Smokies
Average daily ozone pollution levels in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park over the last eight years have been nearly two times higher than pollution levels in Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, […]
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Reservations over Blackfeet Plan
Two hundred square miles of land on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation just east of Glacier National Park in Montana could soon become a huge industrial oil and natural gas development, […]
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Denver Bronc-itis
For the first time, Colorado officials last week issued an ozone pollution alert for Denver, normally a clean-air haven this time of year. The city’s summer ground-level ozone problem is […]
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Throwing Light on Throwing Lights
In a victory for recyclers and enviros, the EPA this week is set to ban the dumping of fluorescent light bulbs into landfills and require bulk buyers of the tubes […]
