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A Vail-ed Threat
A coalition of seven enviro groups is urging skiers to boycott many of the top ski resorts in the Western U.S. and is pointing people instead toward resorts that it says are eco-friendly. In a first-of-its-kind report released yesterday, the Ski Area Citizens Coalition ranked 60 resorts in nine states on 11 environmental issues, including […]
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Tex Mess
Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s voluntary pollution cleanup program for old industrial plants in Texas has not had much success in its first 15 months, according to a draft report released yesterday by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Thirty-seven companies have applied for voluntary permits, but no major industrial facilities have obtained voluntary permits […]
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You Can Judge a Bush By His Brother
Four months ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) pleasantly surprised enviros by saying that his administration would not approve any marina expansions in counties without solid plans to protect endangered manatees, but now Bush has gone back on his word. Yesterday, Bush and his cabinet quietly approved a project they had publicly blocked in July, […]
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Marmot Marmalade
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien emerged victorious from the national election Monday, but he faces a continued challenge from environmentalists critical of his efforts (or lack thereof) to protect endangered species. A new website, cookedspecies.com, pictures Chretien in a chef hat holding an endangered Vancouver Island marmot in one hand and a salt shaker in […]
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Don't Let Clinton Succumb to Senioritis
Enviros are crossing their fingers — as well as waging letter-writing campaigns and purchasing newspaper ads — in hopes that President Clinton will declare a few more national monuments before he leaves office. Top on their list is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, but not far down are about half a dozen more, […]
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What a Long, Range Trip It's Been
Some 100 environmentalists convened in Reno, Nev., yesterday to push for an end to all livestock grazing on federal lands in the U.S., a notion once considered radical but now gaining more mainstream support. The activists argue that grazing causes serious environmental damage in the West, particularly soil erosion and deterioration of streamside areas. They […]
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Ouch of Africa
Nations throughout Africa, with their populations soaring, are facing dilemmas as they try to grow their economies and stem poverty without destroying their unique wildlife and landscapes. In Cameroon, 90 percent of virgin forests have been decimated, and hunters are following the logging industry into the forests to kill large mammals for the growing bush-meat […]
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Facing hundreds of millions of dollars in hazardous-waste cleanup costs, General Electric asked a U.S. federal court yesterday to declare the Superfund law unconstitutional. In its lawsuit, the company contends that the law gives the U.S. EPA “uncontrolled authority to order intrusive” cleanups of “unlimited scope.” It also claims the law violates the Constitution’s due-process […]
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Monsanto: We Should Have Been More Honest About Misleading You
Monsanto announced yesterday that it will restrict sales next year of one variety of genetically modified corn and delay until 2002 the introduction of another in order to avoid disrupting U.S. grain exports. American corns sales to Japan and other countries have fallen markedly this fall after the StarLink biotech corn variety, which was not […]
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Any Way You Slice It, This Sucks
Someone recently used a chainsaw to slice into Luna, the 1,000-year-old redwood made famous by Julia "Butterfly" Hill. Hill lived in the tree in Northern California for two years to protest old-growth logging, and only came down from her perch last December after striking a deal with Pacific Lumber Co. to spare the tree and […]
