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Everything But the Carbon Sink
A new study throws doubt on a 1998 analysis that determined the plants and soils of the U.S. and southern Canada were absorbing as much carbon dioxide as the two societies emitted. For the study, which was published in the July 23 issue of the journal Science, researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center in […]
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Power Lyin'?
A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher falsified data that had been considered crucial evidence of a link between electromagnetic fields from power lines and cancer in humans, according to a federal investigation. Robert P. Liburdy agreed to have scientific journals that published his studies in 1992 retract some of his data, but he denies any […]
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Corporate Welfare: As Sure as Death and Taxes
Big tax breaks for companies not known for their eco-friendliness have wormed their way into a tax bill that has passed the House and another tax bill that is under consideration in the Senate. Enviro and consumer groups are criticizing tax breaks for the timber industry, oil and gas companies, and nuclear power plants. A […]
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Silly Babbitt
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has buckled to the demands of ranchers and other land users along the upper Missouri River and declared that he will not put new restrictions on the area. He had sought to freeze new mining claims and other land uses along a stretch of the river and a surrounding 90,000-acre area […]
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Rising Solar
Japan will launch an $85 million project next month to help Russia deal with environmental problems and conserve energy, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan. Much of the money will pay for research into the generation of electricity by natural gas, while funds will also go toward researching ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, promoting […]
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A Bum Deal
Nevada’s two Democratic senators are pressing a bill that would force the Bureau of Land Management to sell land near California’s Mojave National Preserve as a site for a second Las Vegas airport, even before environmental studies can be done to determine its potential impact. The Interior Department, on behalf of both the BLM and […]
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Reinventing the Wheels
EU ambassadors voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would force automakers to take back old cars and pay for the cost of recycling or reusing them, overriding opposition from Germany. The bill, which still needs approval from the EU parliament, would cover all cars produced in 2001 or later. By 2006, automakers would […]
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Sit-In on the Dock of the Bay
Dockworkers, environmentalists, and the regional EPA office in Seattle joined forces yesterday to stop the first in a series of shipments of potentially toxic waste from Taiwan due to be shipped to Tacoma, Wash., this week, then on to an Idaho hazardous waste landfill. The waste was illegally dumped last year in Cambodia, where its […]
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Gore Plays Heart and Soul
Vice Pres. Al Gore played the good environmentalist yesterday in New Hampshire, designating the Connecticut River, which winds through four New England states, as an American Heritage River and announcing that $819,000 will go toward projects related to the river. Gore canoed along the river with New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D), as friends, backers, […]
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Californians Log Off
In an effort to improve water quality and protect fish populations, California Gov. Gray Davis (D) has proposed new regulations to tighten logging restrictions along streams on private forestland. But environmentalists say they don’t go far enough. The rules would represent steps toward strengthening the state’s 26-year-old Forest Practices Act, which many say has failed […]
