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To rebut its critics, the Administration is emphasizing its policies to clean the air and slow global warming. Bush plans to spend Earth Day in the Adirondacks, trumpeting policies that don't fit the environmentalists' caricature of him--such as EPA's decision to make General Electric pay almost $500...
So who's right? Is Bush a menace or a pragmatist? On some issues--air quality, easing national-park maintenance backlogs and farmland conservation--Bush's novel, market-driven approaches may prove efficient and effective in ways that some environmentalists seem unable to see. And there has been more continuity...
But conservationists protested. The four species of bats living at the museum are unusual: scientists say the Cambodian Free-Tailed Bat, in particular, can be found nowhere else in the world. In addition, the museum's 2 million bats were messy but useful: they were credited with eating an estimated...
“People really seem to be enjoying this,” said Kate S. Widland ’02, a co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC), the umbrella student group that encourages conservation and that organized Earth Day festivities. “Students said they learned...
Aside from conservation groups like Enviro-Ed and Green Cup—which holds monthly contests for the most energy efficient house—newer groups also joined in the celebration.