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LONDON, Nov 25 (AFP) - Gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, the increasingly popular all-terrain cars, should be forced to sport labels just like cigarette packs announcing their terrible health and environmental impact, a British think tank said Thursday. Just like smokers in the European Union buy tobacco marked with "Smoking Kills" and other dire warnings, New Economics Foundation (nef) offered its own slogans for super-stickers which they said should be slapped onto the hoods and sides of cars. "Global warming kills," "Climate change can seriously damage your health" or even "Driving seriously harms you and others around you" were among the...

Rochester (AP) Police say a woman went to a Beaver County police station and admitted fatally shooting her husband after he threatened to kill their pets. Elsie Kost was charged yesterday with homicide in the death of her husband Edward. Police say Edward Kost was killed November 16th but authorities didn't find out about the shooting until Elsie Kost confessed to shooting him and putting his body in cistern on their property. Elsie Kost had told others her husband was away at a hunting camp. But New Sewickley police say she told her daughter about the shooting yesterday and they...

Maryland school to be built around rare toad - MAPLE RUN, Md. (AP) - It has a green snout, bleats like a sheep and is rarely seen in St. Mary's County. Despite its elusiveness, county planners have agreed to build an elementary school in a way that will accommodate the mating habits of the eastern narrow-mouthed toad that state naturalists say lives in the surrounding marshes. Minimal blacktop will be used for the school and its construction will revolve around a strict time frame set by the toad's amorous needs. "We want to have a time period on it because...

Candidate founded group to shift children's 'thinking, values, action' Presidential candidate John Kerry and his wife, Teresa, organized a group 11 years ago with an agenda to use public schools at all levels to "leverage change" throughout U.S. society by instigating "a complete shift in thinking, values and action" among America's youth. Second Nature, run by Anthony Cortese, an adviser to Kerry who has campaigned for him this year, promotes the notion of "Education for Sustainability" in schools across the country – from kindergarten through the universities. Cortese, president of the organization that is financed principally by Teresa Heinz Kerry's...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday struck down a ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, calling it a "prejudged, political" move that sought to exclude the vehicles from all national parks. U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer ruled that the Clinton-era ban was invalid because it did not involve adequate public participation and failed to follow federal law. His decision could clear the way for new rules that allow the machines. The rule was "the product of a prejudged, political decision to ban snowmobiles from all the national parks," Brimmer wrote. The National Park...

Progress in science is sometimes made by great discoveries. But science also advances when we learn that something we believed to be true isn’t. <> In the scientific and political debate over global warming, the latest wrong piece may be the “hockey stick,” .... This plot purports to show that we are now experiencing the warmest climate in a millennium, and that the earth, after remaining cool for centuries during the medieval era, suddenly began to heat up about 100 years ago.... -SNIP- But now a shock: independent Canadian scientists... have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program...

Green Wealth: Funding the Enemy Green and animal rights organizations do not subsist on the sale of calendars, books, and stuffed animals. They are wealthy beyond the comprehension of most Americans and others who support them in the belief they are "protecting the environment" and saving animals from "cruelty" and "extinction." You will be astonished to learn that there are more than 4,000 environmental groups in America today. "And the number is growing," warns Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, "and they are really out to get you." Worse, they have the clout and the...

Talk about a vitriolic, Bush-bashing, conservative-bashing, Republican-bashing, harangue! A friend sent me this message that Environment 2004 sent to it's members: "Dear E'04 members, How do you plan to celebrate this 4th of July? Fireworks, town parades, barbecues, or perhaps a trip with your family to a nearby national park may come to mind. Every year, nearly 300 million people visit our national parks to enjoy some of the most spectacular scenery and historical treasures our country has to offer. But if you're headed to a national park this weekend, you might be disappointed to find closed visitor centers, crumbling...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Environmentalists want emergency federal protection for the Casey's June beetle, one of the rarest insects in the world that lives on only 600 acres south of the city and is threatened by the desert building boom. In a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity listed two building projects already under way in beetle habitat and five more in development. They want emergency protection under the Endangered Species Act. "Unless we take immediate action to preserve its habitat, Casey's June beetle is history," said David Wright,...

TORONTO — Lumber and plywood prices have shot up so rapidly in recent months that they are tearing the profit out of home construction for some builders and threatening to dent the booming housing market. Paul Kuszmaul, president of Kuszmaul Builders in Champion, Ohio, said the run-up in prices had left him unsure whether to push ahead with a condominium development in the Mahoning Valley, between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Since January, he said, the cost to build each condo unit in the project had risen $4,000, largely because the price has more than doubled for oriented-strand board, a widely used...

Ted Turner has an embarrassing amount of gas. Embarrassing, that is, for an "environmentalist." "The media mogul gives millions to environmental and conservation causes, but finds himself in the awkward position of having to drill more gas wells on his pristine wilderness ranch in New Mexico," the New York Post reported today in an article headlined "Ted sacrifices green goals for greenbacks." "Having to"? More like wanting to. "Some environmentalists have been on the warpath in Washington, D.C., for months to control gas exploration in his area and along the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains." Now that energy prices...

Elitist environmental activists observing "Earth Day" on April 22 are promoting a regulatory agenda hostile to minority ambitions for economic and social advancement. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 alternatively promote an environmental justice agenda that ensures human welfare is not sacrificed to meet regulatory goals. "Most people in our country favor things such as clean air that are raised on Earth Day. However, I believe that Earth Day has changed into an opportunity for socialists and others with interests in slowing down our economy to suppress the resource development, exploration and production that our country needs to...

<p>Opponents take aim at Highlands proposal Loss of land values and home rule feared Wednesday, April 14, 2004 BY AL FRANK Star-Ledger Staff For a second night in a row, opponents jammed a public forum and asked legislators to put the brakes on a bill that would limit development in the Highlands.</p>

Utah's Sundance Kid has joined more than 100 notable Americans in a campaign to celebrate the nation's wild treasures. Robert Redford on Wednesday helped launch "Americans for Wilderness," a group commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Preservation Act. The Oscar-winning director and actor said the act -- which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law Sept. 3, 1964 -- was a bipartisan effort to recognize that some places "are so powerful we use them to identify the best of ourselves." To date, more than 105 million acres of public lands, mostly within national forests, have been set aside as...

  Posted on Fri, Mar. 12, 2004 Corporate America can't ignore global warming, Gore says RACHEL KONRADAssociated Press   STANFORD, Calif. - Detroit automakers and other American companies must stop ignoring the mounting scientific evidence of global warming or else the United States will become an economic laggard and the environment will deteriorate beyond repair, former Vice President Al Gore told students at one of the nation's top business schools."The American auto companies have sat around, and instead of hiring more engineers to solve the problem they hired more lawyers to fight the requirement that they do the right...

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORKLawmaker: Put feng shui in building codeCalifornian wants state commission to push ancient Chinese practice Posted: January 16, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Ron Strom© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Democratic California legislator has introduced a resolution that would urge state officials to include the principles of feng shui in the California Building Standards Code, which is used in the design of public buildings. The legislation, ACR 144, was introduced last week by Assemblyman Leland Y. Yee of San Francisco. Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice that encourages the correct design of living spaces so people can experience "a positive energy...

<p>RICHMOND, Va. — Three young men pleaded guilty to vandalizing more than 25 sport utility vehicles (search), construction equipment and building sites on behalf of a radical environmental group.</p> <p>The three, who were in high school at the time of the attacks in the Richmond suburbs in 2002, face up to five years in prison at sentencing in April. Under the plea agreement announced Monday, they must also repay more than $200,000.</p>

<p>STATEHOOD CAME to Alaska 45 years ago today. We are no longer young. Yet we still have not reached the maturity that was envisioned by those who fought so gallantly and long to rid Alaska of territorial shackles that held us in bondage to distant federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.</p>

Interesting. Normally polls are open for a day. Eco-extremists hit this poll earlier yesterday. Freepers brought it back (I think) to even last night and we figured we were done with it. Then, SHAZAM!, it's open again and being eco-freeped. We think they are working to build a false case that Mainers want a 3.2 million acre nature preserve in the middle of their productive working forest. Can we hammer them once again?

Greetings Will, Sorry I have been out of touch! I do appreciate you keeping me posted and this thing is always in my thoughts. Your latest email reminded me of an incident that occurred last archery season with one of my guides and his hunters: Joe and Mike were glassing for elk on "Bucks Knob", a point which allows one to overlook nearly the entire East side of Dome Mountain. Joe and Mike had been hunting all week, the elk being the normal, elusive critters they are. Joe and Mike were good matches as far as hunters and guides go....