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Dude, Where’s My Clean Car?
Automakers Drop Longstanding Suit Over California’s Car-Emissions Rule Clearing the way for more clean cars in California, two major automakers have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the state’s landmark […]
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Working on the Chain Gang
California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics California will no longer use underpaid federal prisoners to recycle the tons of potentially dangerous electronics discarded by state workers. The […]
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Their Own Private Park Service
Former Interior Secretaries Excoriate Plan to Privatize Park Service “Radical,” “reckless,” “hellbent” — those were some of the words Bruce Babbitt and Stewart Udall used to describe the Bush administration’s […]
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The Fine Line
British Polluters Undeterred by Penalties Some of the biggest and best known companies in the United Kingdom are also some of its worst polluters — but neither financial penalties nor […]
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Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing — and no public input
Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, […]
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New clean-energy coalitions talk up national security and the economy
Two ambitious clean-energy coalitions made headlines this month, sweeping out from under the rug vital and far-reaching environmental issues that the Bush administration has steadfastly ignored. The Energy Future Coalition, […]
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Weed Between the Lines
In a finding that undermines one key argument in favor of genetically modified (GM) crops, researchers at Iowa State University have discovered that a number of “superweeds” have developed a […]
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Who needs Superfund when we’ve got reality TV?
By the end of the year, only $28 million will be left in the U.S. EPA’s Superfund account. Superfund pays for the reclamation of abandoned toxic-waste sites, and $28 million […]
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Standing the Rules on Their Ear
More farmers are failing to comply with the rules for planting genetically modified (GM) corn than the biotechnology industry claims, according to a new study of government data. Almost 20 […]
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Yes-kia
The World Wildlife Fund plans to teach the 50,000 employees of telecommunications giant Nokia how to be good environmentalists, the conservation organization announced yesterday. In a groundbreaking partnership, WWF will […]
