Because the American tank was equipped with armor-piercing shells made from depleted uranium (DU, a waste product of the process that produces enriched uranium for use in atomic weapons and nuclear power plants), it was able to destroy all three of its attackers.
The green-sounding Environmental Technology Challenge, a public-private partnership involving both the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and companies that paid $25,000 each to be “founding leaders,” was launched with much fanfare early this year in central Florida, Portland, Oregon, Baltimore, Chicago, and Chula Vista, California. The stated purpose: to encourage other corporations and municipalities to […]
