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School’s Out

A coalition of Montana mining, timber, and construction lobbyists yesterday called on the state legislature to cut funding for the University of Montana’s environmental studies department, calling it “insidious” and […]

Board Stiffs

In what may be the most significant regulatory backdown in state history, the Oregon Board of Forestry yesterday sharply reduced its obligation to review private timber sales on landslide-prone land. […]

Rick Johnson, Idaho Conservation League

Rick Johnson is executive director of the Idaho Conservation League. After working for ICL in the mid-1980s, he spent eight years in Seattle, working with the Sierra Club to protect […]

Liquid Assets

Saudi Arabia is home to the world’s largest oil reserves, but it’s desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn’t a river or lake to be found anywhere […]

Hit Below the Belt

The heavily industrial Midwest has long been afflicted with some of the worst air and water pollution in the country — but now that distinction has been handed off to […]

Kiki Hubbard, Center for Food Safety

Kiki Hubbard is an intern at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization that addresses the impacts of our current industrial food-production system on human health, animal welfare, and […]

Dam Right!

Montana Gov. Judy Martz (R) surprised her audience during last night’s State of the State address by calling for the removal of the Milltown Dam, located at the junction of […]

Wind Bags

The company behind a highly controversial proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod announced yesterday that the project could be 14 percent smaller than previously anticipated, thanks to […]

Growth Spurt

Real estate was hot in Colorado during the 1990s — so hot, in fact, that many communities imposed strict controls on urban growth. Now, some people think the growth-management plans […]

The Air Up There

Air pollution may be to blame for lower birth weights and smaller skulls in African-American babies born in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx, according to a study on childhood […]