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Pentagon Is Pressing to Bypass Environmental Laws for War Games and Arms Testing

The New York Times

December 28, 2004 By Felicity Barringer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 – The Defense Department, which controls 28 million acres of land across the nation that it uses for combat exercises and weapons testing, has been moving on a variety of fronts to reduce requirements that it safeguard the environment on that land.

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Avocado Oil, Taco Grease Fuel Eco-Bus

Thu Dec 23,10:23 AM ET

By Catherine Bremer

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ecologists toured Mexico City taco stands and sushi bars on Wednesday to refuel an old school bus with waste cooking oil that will power the next leg of a green-awareness tour from California to Costa Rica.

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Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue

By Andrew C. Revkin

The New York Times December 15, 2004

The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their existence.

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Bird Extinctions May Impact Environment

Mon Dec 13, 5:12 PM ET

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – About 10 percent of all bird species face extinction by the end of the century and 15 percent more are on the brink, according to researchers who say such extinctions would have a widespread impact on the environment, agriculture and human society.

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Trees for Democracy

By Wangari Maathai

Op-Ed Contributor The New York Times December 10, 2004 Nairobi, Kenya

WHEN I was growing up in Nyeri in central Kenya, there was no word for desert in my mother tongue, Kikuyu. Our land was fertile and forested. But today in Nyeri, as in much of Africa and the developing world, water sources have dried up, the soil is parched and unsuitable for growing food, and conflicts over land are common. So it should come as no surprise that I was inspired to plant trees to help meet the basic needs of rural women. As a member of the National Council of Women of Kenya in the early 1970’s, I listened as women related what they wanted but did not have enough of: energy, clean drinking water and nutritious food.

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Kyoto will not work, warns climate expert

Britain to miss targets on cutting greenhouse gases

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor

The Independent 09 December 2004

The West’s approach to fighting global warming, enshrined in the Kyoto protocol, will not work, a leading climate scientist said yesterday.

The struggle by developed countries to cut back their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal greenhouse gas, will always be overtaken by the rising new emissions of the developing nations, led by China and India, who are not parties to the Kyoto treaty, said Professor Wallace Broecker of Columbia University, New York.

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When the wells run dry

The Week Magazine

December 3, 2004

For the past century, the modern world has run on oil. But geologists now warn that the supply may soon begin to dwindle. Should we be preparing for the end of the Age of Oil?

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Get ‘em while they’re hot: Stadium franks go organic

By Bruce Horovitz

USA Today

Ballparks may soon sell an unlikely offering to chomp along with peanuts and beer: organic hot dogs.

San Diego’s Petco Park and St. Louis’s Busch Stadium plan to test sales of certified organic hot dogs and bratwurst next season, pending availability of enough high-quality product.

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Tech firm saves Texas anti-pollution initiative

Diesel fuel additive reduces ozone and costs

By Kevin Carmody

Austin American-Statesman Friday, November 26, 2004

The Environmental Protection Agency’s former Southwest regional chief, Gregg Cooke, had heard the spiel dozens of times: An upstart company in search of investor dollars has just discovered a miraculous solution to the nation’s most pressing pollution problem.

And, the pitch always goes, the struggling inventor just needs a little help, maybe an endorsement, to save the planet.

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