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For Earth Day, let's make sure the environment is a campaign issue
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La Prensa San Diego
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April 18, 2008
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- Kalet, Hank
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Copyright informationCopyright La Prensa San Diego Apr 18, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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(Editor's Note: Tuesday, April 22, is Earth Day, a day that we celebrate the Earth. On Earth Day, we remember to appreciate nature and learn ways to protect our environment and find ways that we can help keep the planet clean! In celebration of Earth Day we are reprinting two guest editorials from the Progressive Media Project in relation to Earth Day.)
The environment appears to be the forgotten issue during this year's presidential election.
That's why we should view this year's Earth Day celebration as an occasion to put environmental issues on the table.
Here are four crucial ones.
1. Fuel economy standards: Motor vehicles generate about one-fourth of all carbon dioxide emitted into the ...
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Earth Day's founder was ahead of his time
Sunday News Lancaster, PA;
April 20, 2003 ;
John McGonigle;
623 words
......promote his idea of Earth Day. Two thousand colleges and 10,000 schools had Earth Day programs its inaugural...people participated in Earth Day events, including 100...City. An example of Earth Day projects includes the...movement as a whole. On Earth ...
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Earth Day musings.(Opinion)
The Christian Science Monitor;
April 20, 2001 ;
660 words
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Earth Day: Documentary shows us that nuclear power is safer than most...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
April 22, 1997 ;
374 words
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Earth Day gaining ground
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
April 21, 2007 ;
Deseret Morning News editorial;
226 words
......a difference a year makes. In 2006, Earth Day (April 22) was a good idea. This year...new awareness about global warming, nuclear power and fossil fuels, life on earth is...are planned. (A broad list of Utah Earth Day activities is available online and...brainchild of Sen. Gaylord ...
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TO HOST EARTH DAY EVENTS IN WASHINGTON FEDERAL...
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
April 23, 2001 ;
INDSTRY GROUP 99;
609 words
......power field. Since 1973 nuclear power plants have helped avoid...promote the concepts of Earth Day, the department's pollution...did in 1993. In other Earth Day-related news, DOE on...design and solar energy. Earth Day events will include displays...
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Group Protests Nuclear Power Outside Tennessee Valley Authority...
Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, Tennessee) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
April 23, 2002 ;
600 words
......oldest reactor. Nuclear power is unsafe, uneconomical...Monday during an Earth Day rally. TVA needs...had a different Earth Day message for TVA...said critics of nuclear power used fear tactics...the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant in 1996. This Earth ...
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Nuclear power not answer to problem
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);
September 17, 2007 ;
369 words
...Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. Nuclear power is not carbon emission-free. The whole nuclear cycle...more emiss- ions than windpower. Even if we doubled nuclear power in the UK, it would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
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Scare tactics shouldn't keep us from using nuclear power
The Gazette;
April 20, 2008 ;
BARRY NOREEN;
414 words
...Here comes Earth Day, time to highlight...to discourage nuclear energy, and that...t wimp out on nuclear power as America did...energy. So happy Earth Day, everybody, and let's build some nuclear power plants. Contact...
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Nature & science: The safety and reliability of nuclear power is having a...
The Independent - London;
June 3, 2002 ;
LEWIS WOLPERT;
592 words
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This Report Includes A Complete Analysis Of The Australian Nuclear Power...
M2 Presswire;
September 14, 2007 ;
648 words
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Future isn't just coal: State should not ignore nuclear power
Charleston Gazette;
June 20, 2006 ;
Michael L. Green;
655 words
......to give serious consideration to nuclear power. When the government clamps down...coal will certainly rise, making nuclear power more competitive. But there's another benefit from nuclear power - the economic gains that come with...
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Take a Look at the Challenges Faced by Nuclear Power, the Ability of...
M2 Presswire;
March 6, 2006 ;
420 words
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China Slows Down Nuclear Power Development
Xinhua English Newswire;
April 29, 1999 ;
472 words
...China will not start any new nuclear power projects within three years...Shen Wenquan, director of the Nuclear Power Department under the China...at the Third International Nuclear Power Industry Exhibition which...
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Nuclear Power In Europe Analyzes The Energy Situation In Europe And...
M2 Presswire;
February 12, 2008 ;
624 words
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The Nuclear Power Debate: The Politics of Nuclear Power
Review - Institute of Public Affairs;
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Nahan, Mike;
787 words
...Mike Nahan on the politics of nuclear power Alan Moran on the economics of nuclear power Tom Quirk on the safe disposal of waste When I was a young boy, nuclear power was widely seen as the energy of the future-clean, cheap, flexible and abundant...
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