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Oily to Rise
It seems likely that the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will approve a plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling. Reuters predicts the vote will be 12-11 in favor of drilling, with Democrat Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Daniel Akaka (Hawaii) crossing party lines in […]
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Saving Private Lion
Private reserves, rather than public ones, may be the key to survival for many endangered species, according to researchers who presented at the Society for Conservation Biology in Hawaii earlier this month. Jeffrey Langholz of the Monterey Institute of International Studies said private reserves already account for about an eighth of the world’s land dedicated […]
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Jakarta Four: The Hearse
In a big victory for the Indonesian environmental group Walhi, an Indonesian court this week found that mining giant Freeport Indonesia had given false information to the country’s parliament about a fatal mining accident last year and ordered the company to improve its toxic waste management. Four workers died in a landslide at the mine […]
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Rest Assured
We Gristers will be taking a break on Labor Day, but have no fear — we’ll be back on Tuesday. Have a swell weekend.
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Sitting By a Docket of the Bay
In response to a lawsuit brought by enviros, the U.S. EPA yesterday rejected the San Francisco Bay area’s plan to clean up its smog-laden air. Local air-quality officials must now come up with a plan that satisfies the feds by next January, or risk losing more than $1 billion in federal highway dollars. Under the […]
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Do You Seed What I Seed
Sixty-three percent of Canadians would be less likely to buy a genetically engineered food item than a conventional one, according to a poll released today. The biotech industry is listening. Faced with increasingly skeptical consumers and tighter regulations worldwide, the industry is scaling back its plans, bypassing most genetically engineered crops in favor of big […]
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The Jackson Fifty
A coalition of about 50 Wyoming tourism businesses is sending a letter to U.S. President Bush today, asking the administration to reconsider its plans to drill for oil and gas near Yellowstone National Park and other scenic attractions in the state. The Bush administration has claimed it is all about listening to locals and that […]
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Come Shell or High Water
The best way to rid the Great Lakes region of invasive zebra mussels may be to zap them with radio waves, Purdue University researchers told the American Chemical Society at its meeting in Chicago yesterday. The fast-breeding zebra mussels, which were brought to the U.S. in the ballast water of cargo ships, are threatening native […]
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Gopher It!
In what could turn into an unprecedented deal to protect imperiled animals and plants in the U.S., the Interior Department and several environmental groups are working on an agreement to safeguard more than two dozen species under the Endangered Species Act. The agreement would cover such species as the coastal cutthroat trout in Oregon and […]
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Slammin' Salmon
Tens of thousands of Atlantic salmon have escaped from British Columbia fish farms into 77 of the province’s waterways, according to a new report by the Canadian Parliament’s Senate Committee on Fisheries. The aquaculture industry had dismissed concerns that farm-raised Atlantic salmon would ever escape and be able to survive in the wild, posing a […]
