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The Young and the Restless

Groups See Environment as Key to Getting Youth Vote With the coming presidential election expected to be squeaky tight, a host of groups are looking for an advantage in the […]

Don’t Cry for Weeds, Argentina

Genetically Modified Soy Stirs Up Trouble in Argentina Argentina’s adoption of genetically modified soy was touted as a big GM success story, propping up struggling farmers and the country’s sinking […]

Burned Biscuit

Siskiyou Forest Salvage-Logging Proposal Is Sign of Conflicts to Come With another oppressive drought settled over the Western U.S. and a rough wildfire season on the horizon, conflicts like the […]

Downward-facing Smog

EPA Announces New Air-Quality Standards and Offenders Today the U.S. EPA made two long-awaited announcements, the first a list of U.S. counties in violation of new, stricter air-quality standards, the […]

You’re Fired!

Fire Panel Says California Must Make Tough Choices Californians must choose which to protect: the developments rapidly advancing into its once-wild hinterlands, or the hinterlands themselves. So said a report […]

I Smell a Rat

Rat Poison Industry Had Undue Influence on EPA Regs, Say Critics Makers of rat poison were allowed to influence, and in some cases rewrite, two U.S. EPA regulatory initiatives meant […]

May We Suggest the Bermuda Triangle?

U.K. Ponders How to Rid Itself of Nuclear Waste The U.K. is stuck with nearly 500,000 tons of nuclear waste, which will be dangerous for 250,000 years, and it is […]

I Guess He’d Rather Not Be in Colorado

Colorado River Is Nation’s Most Endangered, Says Group The Colorado River is the country’s most endangered river, announced enviro group American Rivers today in its annual assessment of U.S. waterways. […]

My Own Public Idaho

Improbable Coalition Proposes New Idaho Wilderness Area An unlikely coalition of ranchers, off-road vehicle enthusiasts, politicians, and environmental groups has, after years of discussion and negotiation, united to propose the […]

Live at the Apollo

Renewable-Energy Push Would Create Heaps of Jobs, Study Says Federal policies favorable to renewable energy could yield up to 240,000 jobs by 2020 nationwide, whereas continued focus on new fossil-fuel […]