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Michael Fischer, the former executive director of the Sierra Club, has said that there must be "measurable, quantifiable environmental values consistent across boards, even while we acknowledge a nation's sovereignty...
This should appease environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and The National Wildlife Federation who have been clamoring for the inclusion of substantive enforcement mechanisms in the agreement...
...California's Sierra Nevada, skiers haven't seen anything like it in 10 years: 20 ft. of snow already this season, compared with 6 ft. by this time last year. In perennially sunstroked Los Angeles and San Diego, repeated torrents have flooded streets. Rainfall in California is 126% above average and rising, and the snowpack's water content is 170% above normal. With the wettest months still to come, some reservoirs, such as Little Rock in Antelope Valley, right, that were low just months ago are now overflowing. Still, % meteorologists refuse to concede that the six-year drought is over...
...December, Dartmouth divested itself of all its holdings in the company, Hydro-Quebec. Environmental activists from the Sierra Club and other organizations have charged that several Hydro-Quebec projects in Canada's James Bay Region are harmful to the environment and the 20,000 members of local Native American tribes...
...Congress finally pass an act that puts federal facilities under the same environmental enforcement regimen as the civilian sector -- making federal violators liable for the same fines. "At last the government has to meet the same standards as everybody else," says Shira Flax, an environmental expert with the Sierra Club...