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Dear colleagues,
Have you ever sought analytically sound, ideologically unbiased
information about recycling and solid waste management?
The Yale Program on Solid Waste Policy, a research and teaching unit
of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University,
publishes the Working Paper Series on Solid Waste Policy to fill in critical
gaps in research and analysis and to advance the policy debate in solid
waste management.
The working papers that are currently available include:
1. DOES THE SOLID WASTE HIERARCHY MAKE SENSE? A Technical, Economic and
Environmental Justification for the Priority of Source Reduction and
Recycling, by John Schall.
2. LESS WASTE ON THE LOADING DOCK: Competitive Strategy and the Reduction of
Logistical Packaging Waste, by Prof. Diana Twede.
3. WHAT WON"T GET HARVESTED WHERE AND WHEN: The Effects of Increased Paper
Recycling on Timber Harvest, by Dr. Peter Ince.
4. NO TIME TO WASTE: Time Use and the Generation of Residential Solid Waste
by Prof. Geoffrey Godbey
If you would like information on how to obtain any of the papers, please
send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit the web site for the Yale Working
Papers at http://www.yale.edu/pswp
Abstracts of the papers are also available via e-mail.
Reid Lifset
Associate Director and Editor,
Yale Working Papers on Solid Waste Policy
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Program on Solid Waste Policy
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
205 Prospect Street
New Haven,CT 06511-2106
USA
203-432-3253 (telephone)
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Subject: EDITORIAL: GORE AND THE GREENS VS. DOLPHINS (fwd)
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>Selected by your NewsHound profile entitled "MISC PROFILE". The selectivity
>score was 30 out of 100.
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>Editorial: Gore and the greens vs. dolphins
>By
>
>By Alexander Cockburn
>
>A BIZARRE alliance stretching from Vice President Al Gore through major U.S.
>green groups to narco-traffickers in Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia is now
>pushing the vile ``dolphin death bill'' that threatens to clear a House
>Committee in Congress as early as next week.
>
>One of the great triumphs of grass-roots environmentalism in this country was
>the battle in the late 1980s to ban the sale of ``dolphin-unsafe'' tuna,
>meaning fish caught by nets that would also ensnare dolphins. The tuna
>fishing toll on the dolphins of the eastern Pacific was dreadful, killing
>more than 7 million. A turning point in the campaign initiated by Earth
>Island Institute was the surrender of the Heinz subsidiary Star-Kist. A U.S.
>law banning the sale of dolphin-unsafe tuna soon followed.
>
>Last summer, the Mexican government quietly let it be known that under the
>terms of NAFTA and GATT, it should be permitted to sell its canned tuna in
>U.S. markets, even though its fishing fleets had taken no measures to ensure
>that dolphins were not part of the regular haul. The Mexican position was
>duly communicated to Mickey Kantor, then the U.S. government's trade
>representative.
>
>You should recall that at a crucial moment in the NAFTA battle in late 1993,
>the Clinton administration was able to brandish a statement of support for
>the free-trade agreement from seven major environmental organizations. Among
>them were the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council,
>World Wildlife Fund and the National Wildlife Federation.
>
>Primed by Kantor, the Clinton administration adopted the view that the
>Mexican request was entirely legitimate but that the big green groups had to
>be trotted out once more to provide the necessary political camouflage.
>Closed-door sessions were held at the Mexican Embassy in Washington.
>Participants included the Environmental Defense Fund, National Wildlife
>Federation, Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund and the Center for Marine
>Conservation.
>
>Staffers at the Environmental Defense Fund and National Wildlife Federation
>drafted the language of the dolphin-death bill, with the help of Bud Walsh,
>an attorney who has labored for the ``Wise Use'' movement.
>
>The House bill fronted by the big green groups repeals the current
>dolphin-protection law and will permit the unlimited sale of dolphin-lethal
>tuna in the United States. There are many devious components to this
>legislation, but perhaps none more egregious than language that will allow
>the Mexican tuna to be marketed under the ``dolphin-safe'' seal, even though
>such tuna may have been caught by the ``chasing and encircling method,''
>known to kill thousands of dolphins each year.
>
>The litany of double-dealing is a familiar one, starting with Ozone Man
>himself, Al Gore, who has already appeased Norwegian whaling interests
>earlier this year in the name of GATT and now seems intent on using his
>environmental credentials to forge a similar deal for Mexico on dolphins.
>
>A letter went out from Gore on June 3 to all members of Congress, saying that
>the Clinton administration ``strongly supports'' the dolphin-death bill. Gore
>trotted out the astonishing argument that we have to kill more dolphins to
>protect the ocean eco-system. To buttress this laughable argument, he
>flourished the bill's support by the five big national green groups.
>
>The Heinz Corp., which owns Star-Kist, the world's largest tuna processor,
>has made big investments in ``dolphin-safe'' tuna and is, to its credit,
>resisting pressure from Teresa Heinz (a green version of Arianna Huffington,
>who is a leading stockholder in the company) and the White House to support
>the redefinition of ``dolphin-safe'' and the opening of the U.S. market to
>tuna from Mexico.
>
>And the green groups? They call it a victory for the environment. Sounding
>very much like a full-fledged free-market environmentalist, Greenpeace
>President Barbara Dudley says her organization supports the bill because ``it
>tears down unfair trade barriers'' for Latin American countries such as
>Mexico, Colombia and Chile. ``The current dolphin-safe tuna laws represent a
>kind of green protectionism. We need to give Third World nations economic
>incentives to protect the oceans.'' All the while, Greenpeace rakes in
>millions of dollars a year in the name of the dolphins and the whales.
>
>See this bill as a bellwether. In its wake will come further assaults on U.S.
>environmental laws, precisely along the lines foretold so accurately 2 1/2
>years ago by NAFTA's opponents.
>
>Alexander Cockburn is a syndicated columnist.
>
>
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the use of meat, and the time will come when
men such as I will look upon the murder of animals
as now they look upon the murder of men."
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