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"Last year was a historic year for environmental protection, and that’s not hyperbole.

The nonpartisan political action group rated members of the Legislature on 22 environmental votes.

Voices & Choices of the Central Carolinas is a nonprofit that promotes regional cooperation to foster more environment-friendly development and preservation of open space in a 14-county area surrounding Charlotte.

The study found that the region is feeling the impact of growth at a greater rate than the population is growing, that the region lacks a clear vision on how it should grow while protecting environmental health and that data for understanding important trends is not widely collected.

For example, he has found that many employers give respirators to employees who work with chemicals or in dusty environments, but they don’t test the air quality to check what sort of hazards the employees are exposed to, or make sure that the respirators are adequate for the job.

The biggest threat to the wildlife in the area comes from PCBs which are found in the river and environmentalists would like to see the river cleaned up enough for the state to remove the fish advisories.

Federal law requires that the mentally retarded live in the least restrictive environment possible.

A circumstantiality assembled of little documentary facts can feel flimsy, offering less resistance to enchantment than an unsifted environment clumsily pressing all around us.

What does one do when the power of one's convictions rail so ardently against the public's greater desire? Moreover, what does one do when the source of one's income, both in the micro sense and the macro sense, is tied so intimately to the public's greater desire? This is the delicious irony that exists this week in Seattle, a town of liberal-minded life lovers consumed by hate in the confusing environs of its basketball cosmos.

Three of the eight escaped their dreadful environment, and ended up in excellent boarding schools; one boy shows serious promise as a professional photographer.

Late last year, Ed Kilgore, policy director of the Democratic Leadership Council, earnestly advised his party's candidates to invoke "God's green earth" in supporting stronger environmental laws.

I continue to believe that the stock market, currency market and economy are basically all the same trade, and that the environment in which we live is as binary as any that's ever existed.

I've done nothing basically because the environment is so binary (and all these trades are different expressions of the same view) that I feel no compunction to rush into anything, especially in the shorting-stocks department.

NGOs means nongovernmental officials, or, more bluntly, environmentalists.

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