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Nov 2002Places by which Russia's ranking in the U.N.'s Human Development Index of living standards has fallen since 1990: 31
Source:

United Nations Development Programme (N.Y.C.)

Jul 2002Number of fishing boats bought and sunk by the U.S. government since 1995 in efforts to protect overfished species: 88
Source:

U.S. Department of Commerce (Silver Spring, Md.)

Aug 2001Number of 21 cruise ships tested by Alaska last summer whose wastewater met federal sewage-treatment standards: 1
Source:

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (Juneau)

Apr 2000Portion of Texas industrial plants operating under “grandfathered” emissions rules that predate 1971's Clean Air Act: 1/2
Source:

Public Research Works (Austin, Tex.)

January 3, 2004Federal authorities continued to claim that the diseased meat "is a zero-risk product."
Source:

San Francisco Chronicle

December 31, 2003The American Meat Institute criticized the new rules.
Source:

New York Times

November 26, 2003The Recording Industry Association of America was seeking a permanent exemption to antitrust lawsuits.
Source:

The Register

November 6, 2003Lawyers at the Environmental Protection Agency announced that they were dropping lawsuits against 50 power plants for violating the Clean Air Act, because newly weakened enforcement rules have undermined the cases.
Source:

New York Times

November 5, 2003Environmentalists sued the federal government to force it to protect the flat-tailed horned lizard.
Source:

New York Times

August 15, 2003The United States Army delayed the destruction of more than 1,200 tons of VX, a deadly nerve agent, at the Newport Chemical Depot, 30 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana, because the plant has failed to meet environmental standards.
Source:

Associated Press


December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry