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Oh Stop, You're Killing Me

Three Republican senators from the Northwest — Slade Gorton (Wash.), Larry Craig (Idaho), and Gordon Smith (Ore.) — yesterday embraced a report released this week by enviros that indicates salmon […]

Canada Gets a Sock in the Eye

Salmon runs on Canada’s west coast have declined drastically in recent years because of habitat destruction, overfishing, and changing ocean conditions, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pacific […]

There Is No Free Lunch

The European Union’s plan to limit carbon dioxide emissions trading as a way of meeting climate change commitments will increase the cost of fighting global warming, according to a study […]

Water Over the Dam

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, in a speech yesterday in Colorado to Western water officials, proposed setting minimum water levels for rivers and signaled his intention to redirect water toward environmental […]

Oil of No-Way

California Gov. Gray Davis (D) is pulling no punches in his fight to block new oil and gas drilling off the coast of central California. His administration yesterday unveiled a […]

One Can's Trash Is Another Plan's Treasure

One of the nation’s largest garbage-to-energy projects got underway in central Washington last week, capturing enough methane gas from a massive landfill to power 3,000 homes. A local public utility […]

Dogs Do the Wild Thing

Africa’s wild dogs, nearly driven to extinction by hunters and dwindling habitat, are making a comeback. Nine dogs — some wild, some raised in captivity — will be released today […]

Cutthroat Competition

A coalition of enviros and fishing groups banded together yesterday in filing a lawsuit to force the feds to protect the Rio Grande cutthroat trout under the Endangered Species Act. […]

Take Those Jobs and Shove 'Em

In an unusual deal that reflects mounting concern about sprawl, computer chip-maker Intel agreed with local officials not to bring too many more jobs to the greater Portland, Ore., metropolitan […]

New Marine Motto: Semper Die

Marine life is severely threatened by climate change, according to a new report from the Marine Conservation Biology Institute and the World Wildlife Fund. Among other problems, warming oceans seem […]