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Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
Forest management has long been one of the most contentious issues in the Western United States, often placing enviros, locals, and government land managers at loggerheads (so to speak). But in some small pockets around the West, people are banding together to balance conflicting interests in local forests, a trend policy makers call community-based forest […]
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And other words from readers
Re: Point. Click. Ignore. Dear Editor: I was appalled that the U.S. Department of Interior is ignoring email appeals now. However, email filtering can be defeated: If the criteria for tossing an email were that it looks just like 80,000 other emails with the exception of the signature, then one can write software to […]
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Just Goshute Me
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that it was not responsible for evaluating the potential environmental impacts of a terrorist attack on a proposed nuclear-waste storage facility in western Utah. Opponents of the $3.1 billion facility, which would be located about 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on sovereign lands belonging to Skull […]
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‘Tis Better to Give
From the Enron scandal to environmental rollbacks, it seems like the headlines these days are dominated by greed, recklessness, self-interest, and shortsightedness. What’s a concerned citizen to do? How about giving to Grist this holiday season? In exchange for your generosity and altruism, you’ll help ensure that we keep publishing top-notch environmental news until the […]
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10,000? Maniacs!
After two decades of struggle, Pennsylvania has finally secured legislation requiring the state to design and implement a water-conservation strategy. The Water Resources Planning Act, signed into law this week by outgoing Gov. Mark Schweiker (R), is widely seen as a first step in determining the amount of water available in Pennsylvania, as well as […]
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Sucker Punch
Thanks (or maybe no thanks) to a deal struck by the federal government and the Washington state Attorney General’s Office, some 170 barrels of highly radioactive plutonium waste will be shipped from California and Ohio to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington beginning as early as next week. In exchange for being allowed to transport […]
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Angelo the Ripper
Environmentalists scored a victory yesterday — albeit a fragile one — when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that the Clean Water Act applied to attempts by developers to fill wetlands using an increasingly common method known as deep ripping. The case concerned a California developer, Angelo Tsakopoulus, who used deep […]
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Milling for the Grist
Green-leaning former Vice President Al Gore has decided against running for president in 2004 — but never fear, Grist Magazine is keeping its hat in the ring. No, we’re not running Umbra Fisk as a write-in candidate for ’04; we do plan, however, to be around to tell it like it is on the environment […]
