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The Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec, backed by environmental groups, has sued Hydro-Quebec, the government-owned utility, to block the next stage of the James Bay project, which would affect the Great Whale and Nastapoca rivers, in the northernmost regions of inhabited Quebec, and three rivers farther...
Henry, a thickset man of 68, has been head of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the civil rights movement was at its peak. Mississippi's Delta was one of its deadliest battlegrounds, a crescent of tormented land between Memphis and Vicksburg...
"Montana's legendary rivers and lakes offer anglers the opportunity to catch wild trout in a pristine environment," gushes the promotional copy on the state's 1990-91 tourist map. Certainly the instructions to photographer Steve Bly seemed clear enough: go forth into the wilderness and bring back a shot...
-- Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are also considering variations on the same risky business for their rivers.
One of the major arguments against the proposed pact is not economic but ecological: the maquiladoras have an unenviable track record of pollution, which is affecting the health of Americans across the border. Says Stewart Hudson of the National Wildlife Federation: "The maquiladora program is a case study of the...