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League of Conservation Voters
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Focus on U.S. Congress -- information on proposed legislation, how Senators and Representatives voted on environmental issues, and pre-election evaluations of candidates.
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Earthside
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Environment, politics, opinion and quality of life issues for Arvada, Colorado, and the USA.
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Rep America
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Formed in 1995 to resurrect the GOP's conservation tradition and to restore natural resource conservation and sound environmental protection as fundamental elements of the Republican Party's vision for America.
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Vote No on Question 2
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Maine's Question 2, the forestry referendum, will promote sprawl and reduce the overall quality of Maine's forests. This site explains the issues surrounding Question 2.
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iGreens
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Individualist environmental views, articles, reviews, discussion and polls. E-mail list available as well as obituaries, politician evaluations, reprints of papers and poetry.
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The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968)
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An essay that forms the background for much of free-market environmental thinking, which asks how property rights can be extended into commonly held resources, to promote incentives to protect (rather than harm) the environment.
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Oikos
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Italian environmental activist organization.
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Environmentalism from the Right
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conservative letter to the editor regarding environmental policy.
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Critical Decision
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an organization that encourages citizens to study and question the influences large corporations have obtained over democracy, technology, religion, families, society, population growth, and the environment.
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Alternative Environmental Concepts
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Addresses distinctions that should be made in employing words commonly used in the environmental discussion.
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Toxic Wells, NJ - A Satire
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This tongue-in-cheek Chamber of Commerce brochure puts a brave face (and positive spin) on the problems of a mythical environmentally challenged town.
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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
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Global treaty to protect human health and the environment from these chemicals. Includes background information, implementation plans for reducing production of the substances, and list of signatories.
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Ontheissues.org: Environment
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US presidential candidates' views on environmental issues.
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Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save The Bay
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Howard Ernst book addresses the Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once.
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Friends of the Commons
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group seeking to protect the commons as the sum of all we inherit together and must pass on, undiminished, to our heirs.
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Whittaker Bermite Remedial Site
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Public Information web site regarding the cleanup of the Whittaker Bermite testing grounds for explosives and fireworks.
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League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
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mission is to strengthen the capacity of the environmental movement, to mobilize citizens as informed voters, and advocate for sound environmental policies.
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Environment, Resources and Development
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a consulting firm working all over the world. It is also a think-tank elaborating themes of Environment, Human Rights and Culture.
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OMB Watch: Regulatory Policy
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nonpartisan research/advocacy center addresses cross-cutting regulatory policy issues, which can affect environmental policies.
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Ocean Champions
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is a national political organization focused solely on the oceans whose goal is to develop bipartisan political support in the U.S. Congress.
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Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save The Bay
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Howard Ernst book addresses the Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once.
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