- America's Conservation Reserve Program, a project meant (as the name implies) to help the environment and known in the eco-community as the "Holy Grail of conservation," is in serious jeopardy. The unusual culprits? Farmers.
- Hoping to provide a more healthy environment for their patients, hospitals are going green by reducing the amounts of toxic chemicals in their buildings, among other eco-strategies.
- Union Pacific Railroad (and everyone else) has learned their lesson: no more setting forest fires! The company has to pay the US Forest Service $102 million for a 2000 fire north of Sacramento, CA.
- In one of the stranger environmental news moments, a man protesting climate change unsuccessfully tried to superglue himself to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event at Brown's residence.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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