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Laura Kriv, TechRocks
Laura Kriv is the campaign manager of TechRocks’ nuclear disarmament Internet campaign, DontBlowIt.org. Monday, 14 May 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. Some people think that the nuclear disarmament movement is dead. After all, the Cold War is long over. The fear is gone. But is it really? Or has it just been replaced by some other equally […]
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Michelle Knapik, Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program
Michelle Knapik is chair of the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program and director of energy policy in Philadelphia’s Municipal Energy Office. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Michelle Knapik wrote about her experiences at the National Clean Cities Conference, held last month in Philadelphia. Saturday, 12 May 2001 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. I tossed […]
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Chile Peppered
As Chile makes a push to increase its produce exports, the country has begun to use more chemicals on farms, a trend that public health workers say has put farm workers at greater risk of skin disease, miscarriages, sterility, and cancer. A 1998 study in the region where 60 percent of Chile’s pesticides are used […]
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Lodge, a Complaint
A federal judge in Idaho yesterday blocked former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forestland. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge ruled in favor of the state of Idaho and timber giant Boise Cascade and said that if the plan went into effect tomorrow, as had been scheduled, […]
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Seven Brydes for Seven Samurai
Japanese whaling ships set sail yesterday to hunt for minke, Bryde’s, and sperm whales. Whaling ships earlier this year brought home 440 minke whales, but the second hunt will be more controversial because Bryde’s and sperm whales are thought to be more endangered. When a similar hunt occurred last year the Clinton administration threatened Japan […]
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The Emperor Strikes Out
Emperor penguins have been dying as global temperatures have risen, according to a study by French scientists published yesterday in the journal Nature. From 1952 until 1975, the penguin population near a French Antarctic base held steady around 6,000, but in the late 1970s, the number dropped to 3,000, where it has since stabilized. The […]
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Cement Shoos
A federal judge ruled for the second time in a month yesterday that a cement plant can’t be opened in a poor black and Latino neighborhood in Camden, N.J. In April, U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky said the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection had violated the federal Civil Rights Act in giving the plant […]
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And other words from readers
Re: Zed Dear Editor: Have you thought about putting your cartoon, Zed, in schools? I think that would be a wonderful idea. After all, I am a 7th (soon to be 8th) grader and I know what children of my own age like. Some kids would really enjoy it. I have seen my fair […]
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Soft Wood, Hard Hearts
Environmental groups are joining with the U.S. timber industry (!) today in the fight over softwood timber imports from Canada. In a petition expected to be filed with the U.S. Commerce Department today, the groups argue that British Columbia is illegally subsidizing lumber producers by ignoring violations of the Canada Fisheries Act and letting logging […]
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Parking Violation
In a move that has provoked conflict in Congress, the Bush administration has instituted a two-year moratorium on expanding national parks, arguing that its first order of business should be to clear up a $4.9 billion maintenance backlog at existing parks. Environmentalists and national parks advocates are up in arms over the moratorium. Less predictably, […]
