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Drop the Chalupa, er, the Agua
Mexican and U.S. enviros are teaming up to pressure the U.S. government into allocating more water from the Colorado River to protect endangered species, a move that could spur new legal battles over water in the Western U.S. Fourteen enviro groups, including four from Mexico, have announced their intent to file suit within 60 days […]
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Life Is Beautiful. Nukes Are Ugly.
Italy plans to spend nearly $3 billion over the next 20 years to dismantle and clean up its four nuclear power plants and create a repository for nuclear waste, the nation’s industry minister said Tuesday. The plan is intended to implement a 1987 referendum in which Italian citizens voted to ban nuclear power. Meanwhile, the […]
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That's Some Killer Pot
Nearly 11 percent of children in Tijuana, Mexico, have high lead levels in their blood, according to a three-year study by researchers from the University of California at Irvine. Most of the children contracted the lead poisoning by eating from lead-glazed cookware or being exposed to contaminated soil. Only about 0.1 percent of the lead […]
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Hungary for Some Boar
Croatia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are embarking on an ambitious project to create a cross-border nature preserve of at least 250,000 acres at the confluence of the Danube and Drava rivers, Central Europe’s largest wetland. Hungary and Croatia will sign a cooperation agreement today, and unofficial talks are underway with Yugoslav biologists and ecologists. The area […]
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Who Ya Gonna Call? Trust Busters!
Monsanto was hit with a class-action lawsuit yesterday, brought by a coalition of small farmers and farm groups that accuse the company of rushing genetically modified seeds to the marketplace without properly testing them for safety and giving farmers false guarantees about the marketability of genetically modified crops. The suit, filed by some of the […]
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Killmore Trout?
The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to give state and local governments the lead role in protecting threatened salmon and steelhead trout in the Northwest and Northern California, a major policy shift that comes as part of federal regulations released this week. To avoid having to expand the federal bureaucracy to protect 14 populations of […]
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Meow!
In what researchers are saying could be a big advance for endangered species, a house cat gave birth three weeks ago to a rare African wildcat. Scientists at the Audubon Institute Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans said that they had transferred a frozen embryo between species, and that the house cat, […]
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Arrested Development
Most executives say they want their companies to pursue sustainable development — that ubiquitous buzzword that can be loosely defined as incorporating environmental performance and social responsibility into business strategy — but few say that their companies have actually done so. Sounds like a golden opportunity for consultants to step in and lead business types […]
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Forest Grump
The U.S. Forest Service has been hearing cheers and jeers during its public sessions across the country this fall on the Clinton administration’s proposal to protect some 50 million acres of roadless lands on national forests from development. Yesterday was no exception, as more than 500 hikers, hunters, loggers, off-road-vehicle users, and others gathered in […]
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Put an End to Our Sulfuring
Within a few weeks, the U.S. EPA will likely announce its plan to cut back the level of sulfur allowed in gasoline and to put all vehicles, from small cars to sport utility vehicles, under the same set of pollution limits. The plan, which would begin taking effect in 2004, is expected to remain close […]
