Word: ares
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Among the most important steps that any company can take is to launch an all-out campaign to conserve energy. Such a drive can cut fuel bills sharply and at the same time reduce the pollution that contributes to smog, acid rain and the greenhouse effect. Most companies may think...
Whatever actions a company takes to help the environment should apply to foreign operations as well as those in the U.S. In too many cases, corporations have complied with antipollution measures at home but ignored them abroad, especially in Third World countries that are too desperate for foreign investment to...
Coalition members plan to monitor which companies abide by the Valdez Principles and to publicize the findings. In that way, environmentally conscious citizens would be able to decide which firms are best to buy products from, invest in and work for. If this strategy succeeds, companies will find that protecting...
Such precedents are not encouraging if the U.S. is to grapple with global warming, the climate change that might follow from overloading the atmosphere with gases like carbon dioxide. To date the Administration has been slow to react to the greenhouse threat because scientists are still debating how serious the...
Such grass-roots pressure gave added impetus to some major international initiatives. In Basel last March, 105 nations tentatively agreed to place strict curbs on international shipments of hazardous waste. Meeting in Helsinki in May, representatives of 86 countries declared their intention to phase out their production and use of...