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Clearing The Air On Industrial Plant Emissions
The federal permit program that governs industrial emissions is seriously broken. Within the next few weeks, the Bush administration will release its plan for revamping…
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Forced Recycling Is a Waste
As New York City faces the possibility of painful cuts to its police and fire department budgets, environmentalists are bellyaching over garbage. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s…
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Uncle Sam’s Killer Cars
WHOM can you trust more — an old-time tobacco salesman, or a modern proponent of higher federal fuel-economy standards? If you ask Dr. Leonard Evans,…
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Energy Bill That’s Not So Cool
With summer not too far away, we should all be thankful for affordable air conditioning, but a little-noticed provision in the Senate version of the…
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Authoritarianism Is Not A Gadget, It’s A State Of Mind
The two dark-skinned young men, unshaven and heavily muscled, looked ominously foreign. No doubt more than one airline passenger breathed deeper in relief when security…
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Unfocused Federal Wildfire Effort Draws Fire From States
Following the lead of New Mexico — which not long ago declared mismanaged federal lands in the state to be disaster areas and threatened intervention…