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No, Not the NHS!
Whenever I hear the words “universal health care” — as I did during Sunday night's Democratic debate in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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Warming Warning off Message in America
The Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government, Sir David King, was in Washington DC this week trying to persuade America to act on global…
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Vol. VIII, No. 3
Politics Illarionov Explains Russian Position on Kyoto Protocol in Washington Andrei Illarionov, chief economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir…
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Regulating Genetically Modified Foods: Is Mandatory Labeling the Right Answer?
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End Subsidies for Nanotechnology
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NGOs: Dependent ‘Independents’
Curious exhortations last week by crusading Commissioner David Byrne elevated questions over the deceptive role played by the Commission funded, yet purportedly “independent”…
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Technology for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation
Full article available in pdf format Today, most people around the world have access to a greater variety of nutritious…
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Science and Public Policy
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Tying Down a Cultural Giant
There’s an amusing scene in Gulliver’s Travels in which the protagonist awakens from a nap and has his first encounter with the tiny…
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Common Sense Environmentalism
Over the past 30 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped more than a few species to survive. Unfortunately, it has taken a toll on…
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UN-Dermining the Net
There's mounting evidence that the Internet's good old days as a globalcyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a “hands off” approach—may be numbered. [Last year] delegates from 192 countries met in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Geneva to discuss how the Internet should be governed and what steps should be taken to solve the global “digital divide” and “harness the potential of information” onbehalf of the world's poor. Also on the table at the session—the UnitedNations World Summit on the Information Society—was the question of domainname management and how much protection free speech and expression shouldreceive on the Net. The real issue, however, is whether a “United Nations forthe Internet” is on the way. The great advantage of the Net is precisely the ability to reach as many peopleas possible and overcome artificial restrictions on trade or communications attraditional geographic boundaries. The Web, whatever problems it has raised,has provided far more opportunity and freedom to mankind. The United Nationsappears eager to assume greater control over the Net, not because of itsfailures, but because it undermines members' authority. That sounds like thebest reason ever to make sure a United Nations for the Internet never becomes areality. …
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“Direct Action” The Tactics of Radical Activism: Part I
July 8, 2000 – Kwajalein Atoll, U.S. Marshall Islands – American scientists stationed on this tiny Pacific island are making last minute preparations before testing…
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“Direct Action” The Tactics of Radical Activism: Part 1, How Environmental Groups Use Violent Tactics to Advance their
Full article available as a pdf. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />July 8, 2000 –Kwajalein Atoll,…
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Everybody Wants to Rule the Web
There’s mounting evidence that the Internet’s good old days as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a “hands off” approach—may be numbered.
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Turmoil at the Sierra Club?
The Sierra Club is one of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's wealthiest tax-exempt organizations. In fiscal 2002, the Club…
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Driving Away Pollution
Your next new car or truck will be the cleanest-burning one you've ever owned. And it means the end to the already-diminishing problem…
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Even Trade Politics Can Be Local
Mark Vaile, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Australia's trade minister, is in town this week asking an uncomfortable question: “Will the…
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The Global Network of Snobs
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
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GMO Patent Nonsense
One of the most contentious issues in the debate over GM crops and foods is the existence of intellectual property protection and patents…
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Field Guide for Effective Communication
Full Text in PDF For many years, conservative and classical liberal groups have struggled to market their ideas to the…
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Extreme Measures
James Hansen, one of the fathers of global warming theory, commented in the online journal Natural Science in September last year, “Emphasis on…
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Taxing Fat, Killing Jobs
Dark clouds of uncertainty now hover over the future of some 26,000 European companies and their 2.6 million employees. These firms represent Europe’s food…
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Higher Energy Tax is the Answer
Sir, Your editorial “Cutting carbon” (January 20) misstates the efficacy of carbon cap-and-trade schemes as “the most cost-effective way of reducing pollution.”<?xml:namespace prefix…
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France Launches Global Culture War
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
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Time to Move on
No doubt trying to distract attention from the recent Bush-Hitler ad controversy and its sponsorship of an event where B-list celebrities used the F-word to…
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An Apple a Day
“Who are those guys?”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That's the question that keeps popping up…
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Corporate PR Must Reach People as Consumers and Citizens
PR pros have long sought to link their efforts to clients’ return on investment. The planned campaign for the Aluminum Association, detailed in this magazine…
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Eco-Socialism: Threat to Liberty around the World
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Letter to DOE on the Risks of Kyoto Risk Insurance
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A Clear Mistake
The Clear Skies Initiative, President Bush's big environmental bill targeting power plant emissions, appears to be stalled in Congress. In an effort to…
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The Green Machine
Click on pdf link above to obtain full version of article Twenty EU member and accession states labour under a cadre…
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Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…
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Russian Revolution
On <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />December 2, 2003, Andrei Illarionov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief economic adviser, stunned green activists…
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The Air Gets Cleaner, While Environmental Politics Gets Dirtier
The way the administration’s environmental critics tell it, you can’t see your hand in front of your face anymore because of all the pollution…
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Joint Letter to DOE on Transferable Credits
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December Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:…
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Virtually Extinct
It seems that virtually every news organ in the English language has carried the story of new scientific claims published in Nature magazine that…
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Vol VIII, No. 1
Politics News of Kyoto’s Death Spreads The realization that the Kyoto Protocol is as good as dead seems to…
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The Cow that Came Home to Roost
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Non-stories are common in the media around the holidays. Last year, we…
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Finding Nemo, Losing Fear
Many thousands of children and their parents were entranced this year by Pixar's excellent movie Finding Nemo, whose combination of inventiveness, comedy, and emotion…
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Vol VII, No 25
Politics Little Happens at Gloomy COP-9 The ninth conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-9),…
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An Improved Climate
Every year, environmental alarmists claim we have taken another step on the road to ruin. This year, they claim 2003 was the third-hottest…
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Is Phone “Competition at the Crossroads?”: An Analysis of the Consumer Federation of America’s Local Competition Study
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Resentment, fear drive U.N. quest for control
There’s mounting evidence that the Internet’s good old days as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a "hands off" approach—may be numbered.
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This Christmas, a Red-Green Split?
Europeans often talk about the Red-Green coalition, the coming together of socialists and environmentalists to save the world and its people from the…
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The Infection of Science by Public Choice:
Full Document Available in PDF Most everyone who cares about the environment…
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Patent Nonsense on GMOs Should Be Debunked
It may now seem daring to say, but in a decade's time GM foods are likely to be as widely accepted in kitchens…
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The Green Inquisitor
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Review of the Commission’s Rules Regarding the Pricing of Unbundled Network Elements and the Resale of Service by Incumbent Loca
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The Parade of Imaginary Horribles
I once had a gruff college professor who spiced his lectures with the phrase “imaginary horribles.” I think of him whenever I read…
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Russia Isn’t Bluffing on Kyoto
In late October, Vladimir Putin shocked the environmental movement the world over by announcing doubts over whether <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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DOE’s Legal Authority Regarding Transferable Credits
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Conko and Prakash Guest Editorial from BioScience News and Advocate
The use of bioengineering technology for the development of new plant varieties has been endorsed by dozens of scientific bodies, has increased crop…
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Buy Nothing Day: Sustainable Consumption at the Cost of Sustained Consumption
Black Friday. The term evokes images of crowded malls and families rushing to get through Christmas shopping lists. The Friday after Thanksgiving is…
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New Rules May Give Diesel Vehicles a Needed Boost
The vast majority of Americans are satisfied with cars and sport-utility vehicles powered by gasoline. In contrast to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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Wishful Anti-spam Thinking
Tomorrow, the House is expected to pass new anti-spam legislation. The effort is understandable: The increasingly apparent downside of an Internet on which you…
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The International Green Agenda
Environmental groups were stunned when the cash-strapped Turner Founda-tion—which gave about $28 million to green causes in 2002—announced recently that it would temporarily suspend all…
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Vol. VII, No. 24
Politics Energy Department’s Proposal Omits Transferable Credits On November 26, the Department of Energy unveiled its long-awaited proposals to “enhance” the Voluntary Reporting…
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…
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Updated: The Perils Of “Soft” And Unratified Treaty Commitments
Full Document Available in PDF THE PERILS OF “SOFT” AND UNRATIFIED TREATY COMMITMENTS:…
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Rescuing Free Trade From the Bureaucrats & Special Interests
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the aftermath of the…
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Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Full article available as pdf. Article appeared originally in December 2003 edition of the Monthly Planet. In…
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The Politics of Global Warming
THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING[1] Full Document Available…
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“FreeCiv” and its Discontents: Policy Lessons from Open Source Games: A Case Study
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IEA report – World Energy Investment Outlook to 2030
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The Power of Positive Drinking: Are Alcoholic Beverage Health Claims Constitutionally Protected
Full Document Available in PDF Food and…
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Who Should Have Air Supremacy?
The Clean Air Act (CAA), perhaps the federal government's most powerful environmental tool, concedes in its very first section, “air pollution control at…
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Baptists and Bootleggers
If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the coalition of the Baptists and the bootleggers has to be one of the oddest. In the early part…
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Vol.VII, No 22
Politics Senate Defeats Lieberman-McCain Bill to Cap Greenhouse Gas Emissions The U. S. Senate defeated a scaled-down version of Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)…
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Competitive Outsourcing in the National Parks
The National Academies’ Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Internship Program presents a seminar on:Competitive Outsourcing in the National…
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October Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “On…
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Lieberman-McCain Bill Meets a Welcome Defeat
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Lieberman-McCain Bill Would Place Hidden Tax on Consumers
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Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman – McCain Climate Stewardship Act
Denounced by its critics as an energy-rationing scheme, and hailed by its supporters as a measure to counteract the dire consequences of global warming, the…
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United Nations Day of Shame
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much…
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General Accounting Office Reports on Cable TV Rates
Contacts: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Ms. Solveig Singleton, 202.331.2274, [email protected]…
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Federal Pesticide Law Needs an Overhaul: Anti-Competitive Effects Hit Consumers, A Case Study
Full Document Available in PDF Most Americans believe that the federal regulatory process is simply designed to protect them from fraud and…
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Lewis Letter to DOE
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />October 23, 2003<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Mrs.
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Sam Kazman: Too Tough on SUVs, Too Soft on Mini-Cars
Official traffic statistics are one of the last things that you'd expect to find distorted by political correctness. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,…
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Russia Could Sink Kyoto — and McCain-Lieberman
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Climate Stewardship Act (S. 139), introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and…
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International Airline Deregulation
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Vol. VII, No. 20
Politics Moscow Conference Casts Doubt over Kyoto’s Future The United Nations’ World Climate Change Conference, which concluded in…
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Safety, Risk and the Precautionary Principle
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CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. Cited in Novak Column
To read Robert Novak’s October 16 column, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Russia Buries Kyoto ‘Consensus’
The most momentous event in the politics of climate change since <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's decision to shelve the Kyoto…
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Vox Populi and Public Policy
“How can you tell whether a whale is a mammal or a fish?” a teacher asks her third-grade class. “Take a vote?” pipes…
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McCain’s Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy
Who does Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) think he is fooling? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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New Study Indicates Federal Fuel Economy Standards Even Deadlier Than Previously Thought
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…
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Global Warming Shakeup in Moscow
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison,…
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Court Verdict Threatens Future of Internet
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Washington, D.C., October 8, 2003—A federal court decision this week has thrown the commercial future…
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Evidence Contradicts NHTSA Claim of Growing SUV Risk
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison,…
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The Poor Suffer as UN Wages War on Science
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less…
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Adrift on the Seas of Knowledge
Senators John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) are deeply concerned about the issue of global climate change. So much so that…
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Genetically Modified Foods Are Nothing New
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Children as Policy Pawns
Americans take nothing as seriously as the need to protect the health and safety of our children. Public concern about environmental harms has intensified…
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Study Reports Good News on U.S. Air Quality
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 2, 2003—Air quality in the United States is good and will continue to…
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Particulate Air Pollution: Weighing the Risks
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Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
Depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer is slowing, according to a study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At a press conference,…
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Are Small Particles Such a Big Problem?
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, small particles in the air pose the greatest threat that it or any other regulatory agency is…
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Running Away From Safety
Remember Jim Fixx? Not many people do, and that's a shame. Fixx was a jogging guru who ran 60 miles a week. He…