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All We Hate Is Dust in the Wind
The Department of Energy is abandoning its plan to build the first U.S. nuclear-waste incinerator in southern Idaho, a change of course applauded by environmental and community groups that had raised a lot of money and waged a high-profile battle against the facility. The DOE announced its decision yesterday as part of an agreement to […]
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National Park and Ride
Yosemite National Park in California would be returned to a more wild, less developed, condition under a plan outlined yesterday by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. The plan — which follows 20 years of battles over the future of the park and is now open to public comment — would scale back parking and remove some […]
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No Way — You Must Be Lion
In an experiment that could herald the future of endangered species preservation efforts, lions this year may give birth to endangered Bengal tigers. A team of scientists, led by Betsy Dresser of the University of New Orleans, has frozen about 170 tiger embryos and plans to implant them in lionesses within the next eight weeks. […]
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Gold Smith?
In a move that heartens enviros, Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.), the new chair of the Senate Environment Committee, has come out against legislative riders, which have been used to undermine environmental protections in recent years. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Smith wrote that he intends to oppose most environmental riders, […]
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Boston Baked Genes
An estimated 2,500 protestors marched peaceably through Boston streets yesterday in what organizers called the biggest demonstration in the U.S. against genetically modified (GM) foods. Protestors — many dressed as mutant creatures, macabre vegetables, and mad scientists — were making their voices heard during the largest biotechnology conference ever held in the U.S., which has […]
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It's Too Dam Hot
A federal court ruling ruled last week that four dams on the lower Snake River in southeastern Washington state must comply with the Clean Water Act, a move that enviros hope will give a boost to their fight to breach the dams in order to help restore salmon runs. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit […]
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Talking Trash
Americans are recycling in record amounts, but are also throwing out more trash than ever before, according to a report released yesterday by the GrassRoots Recycling Network. Recycling kept 28 percent of municipal waste out of landfills and incinerators in 1997, the last year for which the EPA has data, triple the recycling rate of […]
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Michael Noble, Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Michael Noble is the executive director of Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a Minnesota coalition that works to improve the environment and the economy through increased efficiency in energy and land use, and increased reliance on home-grown renewable energy. The coalition partners conduct a coordinated program of research, public education campaigns, and citizen involvement in […]
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Seaing Is Believing
The world’s oceans have warmed dramatically over the past 40 years, according to a major new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, published today in the journal Science. The study of long-term ocean temperature data, the first of its kind to be conducted on a global scale, confirms what many scientists have long […]
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Double, Double, Oil and Trouble
Violence and acts of sabotage against the oil industry are escalating in Nigeria, where poor citizens are protesting environmental destruction caused by oil companies and demanding a fair share of the vast riches being sucked out of the ground. Community activists, fed up with the air and water pollution that harms fishing and farming, stage […]
