The battle between as the world's largest retailer and those who oppose it constructing a new store on the site of one of the Civil War's largest and most important battles continues. DCist music editor Amanda Mattos reports that a letter signed by some 250 scholars, from Ken Burns to David McCullough, puts Wal-Mart on notice: "The Wilderness is an indelible part of our history, its very ground hallowed by the American blood spilled there, and it cannot be moved." In December, the company prepared to submit an application for a special-use permit to construct a store on a portion of the battlefield, which is part of Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. As Mattos notes, the Battle of the Wilderness was the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. It cost 4,000 soldiers their lives and wounded 20,000 others and started the final push towards the end of the war. . . . . .IN SPITE OF THEIR SOMETIMES CHEAP PRICES WALMART DOES A LOT OF ...
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BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- The state of California Wednesday sued six of the world's largest automakers over global warming, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.
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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, was the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles' emissions, according to Bill Lockyer, the state attorney general.
The lawsuit names General Motors, Toyota Motor, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Motors, which is the U.S. arm of DaimlerChrysler of Germany, and the North American units of Honda Motor and Nissan Motor of Japan.
"Vehicle emissions are the single most rapidly growing source of the carbon emissions contributing to global warming," Lockyer said, and he would seek "tens or hundreds of millions of dollars" from the automakers.
The lawsuit follows a summer of record-breaking 49C (120F) temperatures in California that killed more than 100 people, and comes less than a month after California lawmakers adopted the nation's first global warming law mandating a cut in greenhouse gas emissions.