Uncategorized
All Stories
-
Vex and the City
Dust and soot in the air contribute to between 20 and 200 early deaths a day across 20 of the largest cities in the U.S., according to a new study […]
-
The End of the World As We Know It?
What will President Bush’s environmental policies mean to the American West? Observers say the Bush administration will be friendly to developers and the logging, grazing, and mining industries, and have […]
-
![]()
![]()
Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for Snake River dams?
Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river’s imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. […]
-
The Blues and the Graze
The U.S. government is calling for more timber harvesting and less grazing on 64 million acres in the eastern part of the Northwest as part of the largest federal land-use […]
-
Yuck Is Mountin'
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called yesterday for an investigation into allegations that federal contractors compromised a scientific study to determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a safe place […]
-
Blubber Clubbers
Canadian officials are denying they have decided to curb the annual seal hunt off of Newfoundland, by far the largest cull of marine mammals in the world. Based on an […]
-
Barnes Storming
Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) is close to reaching a compromise with environmentalists who have sued state and federal agencies over air-quality concerns and kept metro Atlanta’s $36 billion transportation […]
-
Sturgeons General Warning
Representatives from more than 150 nations are meeting this week in West Virginia to consider changes to a U.N. treaty protecting endangered species. One hot topic is likely to be […]
-
Peake-achu
As a first step toward reaching their goal of stopping all releases of chemical pollutants into Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia are signing an agreement today […]
-
Hi! My Beloved Country
South Africa announced this weekend that it has been selected to host the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development, a.k.a. the Earth Summit 2002. More than 40,000 delegates will likely […]
