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Sunita Dubey, Toxics Link India
Sunita Dubey is a regional coordinator based in New Delhi for Toxics Link India, an information clearinghouse for toxics and related issues. Monday, 26 Feb 2001 DELHI, India As usual, […]
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Won't Somebody Please Take Out the Trash?
The garbage is piling up in New Delhi, India, because the city doesn’t have an adequate waste management system in place to handle the 8,800 tons of trash produced each […]
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Wounds in Our Salt
Forget underground storage for high-level nuclear wastes, says John Leivia, director of Strategic Environmental Technologies. Last week, his company proposed plans to inject thousands of canisters of plutonium into salt […]
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You Dropped a Bomb on Me, Navy
Opposition to Navy bombing exercises on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico is growing stronger as researchers on the island have found toxic levels of heavy metals in crabs, […]
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A Leap and Boundaries
Interior Secretary Gale Norton said yesterday that the Bush administration would not try to change the status of federal lands set aside as national monuments by former President Bill Clinton. […]
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Chevy Suburban, Meet the Chrysler Suburb
DaimlerChrysler plans to start selling a four-wheel-drive vehicle that will make the largest family vehicles now on the road seem tiny — nay, minute — in comparison. The vehicle, dubbed […]
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Still Fighting for a Clearcut Victory
Claiming they are ready to log in more sustainable ways, timber companies in Canada want Greenpeace to call off its international campaign against British Columbia forest products. Weyerhaeuser Vice President […]
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Howling With Joy
Leaving intact protections for red wolves in North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear a case in which two farmers in the state challenged the federal government’s […]
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To Summit All Up
South African officials announced yesterday that the next Earth Summit, to be held in Johannesburg in 2002, will focus on worldwide access to drinking water and safeguarding children. The summit […]
