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From the Town of Bed Rock
In a triumph for environmentalists, a federal panel has reversed a U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision to grant three coal-bed-methane (CBM) mining leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The […]
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Taking Them to Tusk
An agency in Kenya is calling for a world boycott of South Africa’s proposed sale of ivory stockpiles. The South Africa government is planning to submit a proposal to the […]
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When the Latter Day Saints Go Marching in
Environmentalists are up against an unusual adversary in a fight over the sale of a national historic landmark in Wyoming: Mormons. Seven representatives in the U.S. House — all of […]
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Air Squawl-ity
We here at Grist have long since lost track of the score in the face-off between the snowmobile industry and people who like to be able to breathe in national […]
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Andes Dandies
Re: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t Dear Editor: As an educator in a Canadian school, I was very interested in this article. I had the pleasure of traveling […]
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Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Monday, 29 Apr 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My day starts as most do: calling upstairs for my two children to rouse […]
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I’m Too Sexy for My Gills
Meanwhile, in other news about fish, a transgenic version of the North Atlantic salmon is the first genetically engineered animal up for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
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Teach a Man to Fish and He’ll Have No Job Security
New England’s fishing industry will be substantially scaled back under new federal rules announced Friday. The regulations, which reduce the number of days fishers can work, close key fishing areas, […]
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The Agency Formerly Known As the EPA
Perhaps belying its name, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing revisions to some of its own rules in order to allow mining companies to dump dirt and rock waste […]
