Monday, February 25, 2008

02/25/2008 TO Enviro-news

NOW | Fighting Over Forests
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022508T.shtml
NOW reports on "a Bush administration effort [to] open hundreds of thousands of acres of public land to private development."

GM Exec Defends Calling Global Warming a "Crock"
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022508EA.shtml
Kevin Krolicki, Reuters, reports that "General Motors Corporation Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a 'total crock of shit,' saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles."

Branson's Coconut Airways - a Flight to Nowhere
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022508EB.shtml
Sam Jones and Dan Milmo of The Guardian UK write: "A little after 11:30 yesterday morning, a Boeing 747 running on jet fuel and the oil from 150,000 coconuts parted company with the runway at Heathrow and slipped into a hazy blue sky."

A Natural Disaster Wrought by Drug Trade
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022508EC.shtml
Reporting for The Los Angeles Times, Chris Kraul says, "Nature photographer Aldo Brando saw a horrible beauty in the destruction visited upon Colombia's national parks by outlaw coca growers."

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