Tag: Ten Second Response

Dangerous Cargo Proposal Contains Hidden Perils

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BACKGROUND: Saying "the Bush Administration has not acted aggressively"1 to protect Americans from terrorists, Friends of ther Earth and Greenpeace have convinced elected officials on the city council of the District of Columbia to introduce legislation to prohibit the shipment ...

Honest Al He Isn’t: Don’t Trust Al Gore on the Environment

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BACKGROUND: Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to deliver a speech "indicting" the Bush Administration on environmental issues at noon today. According to speech sponsors MoveOn.org and Environment2004, "Mr. Gore will issue an indictment of the Bush administration's inaction ...

Washington Post Slams Bush Global Warming Policy, But There’s More to the Story

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BACKGROUND: The Washington Post on January 1 ran a page one article questioning the usefulness of the Bush Administration's reliance on voluntary programs to reduce emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases." The article, which ran in other newspapers nationwide, begins: "Two ...

Mercury Madness: First-Ever Mercury Limits Called “Gift to Polluters” by President Bush’s Political Opposition

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BACKGROUND: The EPA this month announced a draft proposal to use a "cap and trade" model to regulate mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The President's political opponents immediately attacked the plan. A "cap and trade" model would ...

The National Aviation Heritage Act: No Way to Celebrate the Wright Brothers

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BACKGROUND: The U. S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Nov. 18 on the "National Aviation Heritage Act," H.R. 280. Sponsored by Rep. David Hobson (R-OH), the bill would create a National Aviation Heritage Area encompassing several counties in ...

Hispanics Would Be Hard-Hit by McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Proposal

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BACKGROUND: Management Information Services, Inc., a national economics firm with a client roster representing both business and environmental organizations,1 has released a study showing that passage of S. 139, the McCain-Lieberman global warming bill, would impede, or even reverse, the ...

Senators McCain and Lieberman Propose Energy Tax, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) have proposed a de facto energy tax on the American public that most likely soon will be debated on the Senate floor. Their bill, titled the "Climate Stewardship Act of 2003" ...

Ecoterrorist Hate Crimes on the Increase

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BACKGROUND: The Earth Liberation Front is taking responsibility for arson fires at three construction sites in an area in San Diego that had been used for agricultural purposes.1 This is the fifth arson attack against construction sites for which ELF ...

Ecoterrorist Hate Crimes on the Increase

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BACKGROUND: The Earth Liberation Front is taking responsibility for arson fires at three construction sites in an area in San Diego that had been used for agricultural purposes.1 This is the fifth arson attack against construction sites for which ELF ...

New Source Review: What the Fuss is About, by Amy Ridenour and Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration is issuing a new rule clarifying what is meant by "routine maintenance" under "New Source Review" provisions in the 1977 Clean Air Act amendments. The 1977 Clean Air Act amendments required power plant and oil refinery ...

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