In Stockholm last week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman joined her counterparts from 126 other nations in signing the new United Nations Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. This treaty, the first of the new century, echoes a more limited treaty negotiated 3 years ago under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (SN: 7/4/98, p.
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