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/IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ GREENPEACE: ‘SmILE’ – it’s Environmentally Friendly
Greenpeace rolled out its 'SmILE' Tuesday - a new energy-conscious automobile produced after two years of development by Swiss engineers commissioned by the international environmental organisation./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ UNITED STATES: Politics, Business Spur Land Swaps to Protect Environment
Framed by white spruce and lodge pine trees, President Bill Clinton announced an agreement to swap the site of the New World gold mine near Yellowstone National Park for other federal land worth 65 million dollars.ENVIRONMENT: Politics, Business Spur Land Swaps to Protect Environment
Framed by white spruce and lodge pine trees, President Bill Clinton announced an agreement to swap the site of the New World gold mine near Yellowstone National Park for other federal land worth 65 million dollars.IMMIGRATION-MEXICO: Border Patrols Crack Down as Election Season Begins
As Republicans opened their 1996 national convention Monday in the southern California city of San Diego, Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) officials were bracing themselves for a wave of people expected to inundate the U.S.-Mexico border -- from the north./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ UNITED STATES: Dolphin Bill Faces Struggle
An international agreement on the protection of dolphins that has badly split U.S. environmental groups now threatens to tie up the business of the U.S. Congress./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ UNITED STATES: Olympic Trash Goes to Poor Minorities in Atlanta
The Olympic athletes have returned home with their medals, and the millions of spectators who thronged the stadiums have resumed their normal lives.U.S.-ENVIRONMENT: Dolphin Bill Faces Struggle /REPEAT/
An international agreement on the protection of dolphins that has badly split U.S. environmental groups now threatens to tie up the business of the U.S. Congress.U.S.-ENVIRONMENT: Dolphin Bill
An international agreement on the protection of dolphins that has badly split U.S. environmental groups now threatens to tie up the business of the U.S. Congress.ENVIRONMENT: Olympic Trash Goes to Poor Minorities in Atlanta
The Olympic athletes have returned home with their medals, and the millions of spectators who thronged the stadiums have resumed their normal lives. But they all left something behind: their trash -- and some very upset Atlanta citizens.ENVIRONMENT: World Bank Makes New Plans for Global Coal Industry
The World Bank is stepping up funding for coal mining despite growing agreement among scientists that burning coal is a major contributor to global warming.ENVIRONMENT: Seahorses, Jellyfish Are targets of Fishing Industry
Booming Asian demand for exotic marine species like seahorses and jellyfish are leading to new threats to these ocean denizens as well as to turtles and other species.ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH: Chemical Industry Gears Up For Fight
Chemical companies are quietly preparing their defence of synthetic substances -- the ones used by industry that have been linked to falling sperm counts and rising cancer rates./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 06/ ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Plans for Binding Climate Change Accord Hailed
The U.S. announcement that it wants to achieve a binding agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases reverses five years of stalling by Washington, say environmental activists./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 03/ UNITED STATES: Avocado and Tomato Farmers Fight Mexican Free Trade
Anyone in the United States who expected cheap guacamole to be one of the benefits of free trade with Mexico will be disappointed -- if U.S. farmers have their way.ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Plans for Binding Climate Change Accord Hailed
The U.S. announcement that it wants to achieve a binding agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases reverses five years of stalling by Washington, say environmental activists.ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Avocado and Tomato Farmers Fight Mexican Free Trade
Anyone in the United States who expected cheap guacamole to be one of the benefits of free trade with Mexico will be disappointed -- if U.S. farmers have their way.ENVIRONMENT: Judge OKs Lawsuit Against World’s Largest Gold Mine
A six-billion-dollar lawsuit against Freeport McMoRan for environmental damage and human rights violations at its mine site in Indonesia can move forward now that a federal judge rejected the company's claim that the suit was improperly filed.U.S.-HEALTH: Drug Companies Use Monopoly Prices to Scam Consumers
Want Valium? Prozac? Sleeping pills? Diet pills?U.S.-HEALTH: Drug Companies Use Monopoly Prices to Scam Consumers
Want Valium? Prozac? Sleeping pills? Diet pills?U.S.-ENVIRONMENT: Green Activists Challenge Companies at Shareholder Meetings
Sleepy drivers coming into this city one morning last month caused the worst traffic jam in decades when they slowed en masse to read a huge banner draped on a skyscraper protesting the local telephone company's alleged destruction of Canadian forests.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Coal Mine Loans Opposed on Social Environmental
The first of a series of loans to expand 25 coal mines in India was approved by the World Bank late Thursday despite major opposition by local groups and international activists.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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