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 Stories About: National Wildlife Federation
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NWF's love affair with the junk mail industry
More on Catalog Choice and the Do Not Mail registry |
Glenn Hurowitz |
20 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Yesterday's Washington Post had a fascinating article by Lyndsey Layton about how the U.S. Postal Service is teaming up with the junk mail lobby to stamp out (heh heh) efforts to create state or national 'Do Not Mail' lists that would allow people to opt out of receiving commercial solicitations. That's no surprise: junk mail is big business, and the postal service, the paper companies, and the junk mailers don't want anything that would interfere with their cash f ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, green living, National Wildlife Federation (all these topics) |
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How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed?
Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat |
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21 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed? Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat A federal judge has temporarily halted a $319 million Army Corps of Engineers irrigation project in Arkansas, pending further study of potential impact to the habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker -- which may or may not be extinct. The last c ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, Army Corps of Engineers, National Wildlife Federation, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Why Does He Hate Toads?
SCOTUS nominee John G. Roberts not a green's first pick |
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20 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Why Does He Hate Toads? SCOTUS nominee John G. Roberts not a green's first pick President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. has a distinguished conservative pedigree: He clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and was deputy White House counsel during the Reagan administration. With only two years under his belt as a federal judge, Roberts' ... |
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| Topics: National Wildlife Federation, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Heavy Metal Madness
Pombo eggs on mercury debate with controversial report |
Amanda Griscom Little |
24 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Pombo says: Eat up! House Resources Committee Chair Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) -- longtime bete noire of the environmental community -- cooked up what appears to be some fishy science in a report released last week titled "Mercury in Perspective: Fact and Fiction About the Debate Over Mercury" [PDF]. The report -- written not by scientists but rather by aides to Pombo and a ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fishing, mercury, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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A Case of Influence-a
Enviros Say Pesticide Makers Are Illegally Influencing EPA |
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08 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| A Case of Influence-a Enviros Say Pesticide Makers Are Illegally Influencing EPA Northwest salmon and other endangered species could suffer because pesticide manufacturers are acting illegally to weaken rules on the use of dangerous chemicals, enviros are charging. A coalition of environmental groups, including the ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, fishing, National Wildlife Federation, Northwest, politics, Sierra Club, toxics, US EPA, wildlife (all these topics) |
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