| February 21, 2008 | - The League of Conservation Voters said that McCain had the worst environmental record of all 535 members of Congress for 2007 and had missed more crucial votes than members who died in the middle of their terms.
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The Trail
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| November 24, 2007 | -
Australian voters elected the Labor Party's Kevin Rudd prime minister, replacing conservative John Howard, a Bush ally who failed to retain his own seat in Parliament. Rudd, who has been videotaped eating his own earwax, said he would push for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, leaving the United States the lone holdout.
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Time
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YouTube
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AFP
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| June 20, 2006 | - Police from the tropical island of St. Kitts used M-16 semi-automatic rifles, batons, and a tear gas launcher to apprehend ten Greenpeace activists protesting an international whaling conference.
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Reuters via Google News
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| June 6, 2006 | - American conservationists were airlifting endangered frogs out of Panama in their luggage.
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New York Times
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| April 27, 2006 | - A farmer in Brazil pleaded guilty to killing a 73-year-old nun; the farmer had been paid by two ranchers to shoot the nun after she attempted to stop the ranchers from clearing a section of rainforest.
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Sun-Sentinel.com
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| March 21, 2006 | - A ruptured British Petroleum oil pipeline in Alaska had leaked over 240,000 gallons of oil, much of it into the Arctic Ocean.
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The Independent via Commondreams
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| January 19, 2006 | -
Greenpeace dumped a 55-foot fin whale in front of the Japanese Embassy in Berlin.
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Fox News
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| December 5, 2005 | - A conference on global warming was held in Montreal. The United States was represented by Harlan Watson, whose appointment as U.S. climate negotiator was suggested by ExxonMobil; Watson's presence led to complaints by environmentalists.
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The Washington Post
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| October 21, 2005 | - The Amazon rainforest was being destroyed at double the rate previously estimated.
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Democracy Now!
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| July 3, 2005 | -
Senator Gaylord Nelson died.
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The New York Times
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| June 30, 2005 | - The estimated number of hedgehogs in Britain was found to have dropped 20 percent since 2001, probably because tidy gardens alienate hedgehogs.
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BBC News
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Israel was planning to dump 10,000 tons of garbage a month into the West Bank.
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Haaretz
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| March 30, 2005 | - After four years of hard work, 1,300 researchers in ninety-five countries concluded that humans are destroying the world.
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BBC
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| March 11, 2005 | - A New York judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and several other chemical companies on behalf of 4 million Vietnamese who were poisoned by the 80 million liters of Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War. The judge said that there was no clear link between Agent Orange and the illnesses of the Vietnamese plaintiffs, even though the U.S. government currently pays compensation to ten thousand U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War impaired by Agent Orange.
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VOA
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| March 2, 2005 | -
Nevada announced that it would cost $2 billion to pipe water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.
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New York Times
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| February 1, 2005 | - The Army was testing a new environmentally friendly, hydrogen-powered vehicle called The Aggressor.
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National Defense
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| December 23, 2004 | - The Bush Administration changed federal forest regulations to cut down on “wasteful and time-consuming” environmental impact statements.
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LATimes
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| November 17, 2004 | - The World Conservation Union released a list of 15,589 endangered species, 8,323 of them plants or lichen.
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Reuters
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| August 27, 2002 | -
After reviewing the devastation caused by the biggest wildfire in Oregon's history, President George W. Bush announced his plan to protect 190 million acres of national forest land by allowing more logging to do away with flammable old trees and by protecting the timber industry from environmentalists' lawsuits that could delay such logging. “There is a fine balance between people expressing themselves and using litigation to keep the United States . . . from enacting a common-sense forest policy,” he noted.
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