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Document 5
Newspaper Reports
World Watch, November/December 1998
5. Identify two
ways that nations
or corporations of the world are responding to environmental
problems. [1,1]
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Reproduced from the June 2001 Global History and Geography Regents Exam
Permission to use this resource is granted only for educational, non-profit use.
British Petroeum President John Browne surprised the oil industry when he
announced last year… BP
’s intention to step up investments in solar energy.
Toyota stunned the auto world with the delivery to its showrooms of the world’s
first hybrid electric car
with twice the fuel economy and half the CO
2
[carbon
dioxide] emissions of conventional cars.
After a decade of effort, Denmark now generates [some] of its electricity from wind
power and… from the combuston of agricultural wastes.