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 Stories About: climate AND climate science AND greenhouse-gas emissions AND Kyoto Protocol AND local politics AND politics
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Kyoto, U.S.A.
Tackling climate change at the local level |
Katherine Ellison |
31 Jul 2002 |
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| Sister Evelyn Mattern had two goals in mind as she stood vigil recently with a Protestant colleague in a gas mask, singing, "This Air is My Air!" at the North Carolina statehouse. Her short-term aim was to lend support to stricter regulations for the state's coal-fired power plants. Yet she also had a loftier, long-range objective, one increasingly shared by a wide array of activists: to transf ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kyoto Protocol, local politics, politics (all these topics) |
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