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The Reel Deal
A sweeping agreement between the U.S. and Canada to manage and conserve West Coast salmon runs is expected to be announced today. The 10-year deal, which would end a prolonged dispute over salmon between the two nations, would revolve around a jointly managed conservation trust fund of about $150 million. Millions from the fund would […]
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White House Vs. Greenhouse
Pres. Clinton today will tell the federal government to hop to it when he issues an executive order calling on government agencies to use less energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent from 1990 levels by 2010. The U.S. government is the world’s largest energy consumer, spending more than $8 billion a year. Federal […]
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Golden Boy Eyes Golden Gate
Former Sierra Club Pres. Adam Werbach is eying the mayorship of San Francisco and plans to decide in the next two weeks whether to make a run this November. The 26-year-old environmental wunderkind, who still serves on the Sierra Club board, has hooked up with a campaign consultant who once worked in Bill Clinton’s “war […]
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Too Often Is Heard a Discouraging Word
Americans are discouraged by environmental problems and are losing interest in them, according to a new review of public opinion surveys. In 1989, 51 percent of Americans worried a great deal about the ozone hole and 35 percent about global warming. In 1997, those figures fell to 40 percent and 24 percent. Water pollution is […]
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Spanish Fly in Face of Energy Tax
A European energy tax and other measures to combat climate change could create up to 1.9 million new jobs in the European Union, according to a study released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. Efforts to introduce a Europe-wide energy tax have been stymied by nations such as Spain that fear it would curb competitiveness […]
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Poor Yeti
Glaciers in the Himalayas are threatened by global warming and most of them could melt within 40 years, perhaps causing catastrophic floods in areas inhabited by millions, according to a report published in today’s issue of New Scientist magazine. The study authors, scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, say the glaciers in the Himalayas […]
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A Monica You Want to Hear About
Leaders of Santa Monica, Calif., declared yesterday that they are fed up with dirty air caused by coal-fired power plants and will power city-owned buildings with electricity generated from geothermal sources. The city is the first in a deregulated market to buy all its power from renewable sources, according to Global Green USA. Santa Monica […]
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Eh, B.C., You Get a "D" on Salmon
Salmon runs are rapidly declining in British Columbia mimicking patterns in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, according to speakers yesterday at a fish habitat symposium in Vancouver, B.C. Salmon are suffering as B.C. is being logged, farmed, and urbanized, and as fisheries protection and research remains underfunded. The Canadian and B.C. governments are locked in a […]
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Baby, You Can't Drive My Car
Hundreds of miles of roads in British town and city centers are being put off-limits to cars as local authorities make radical changes to transportation policies. Measures are also being put in place to make life more difficult and expensive for drivers in hopes that they will abandon their cars and get around by walking, […]
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Spore Judgment
Hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria — enough to destroy the world many times over — was buried in an unsafe fashion on a remote island in the inland Aral Sea toward the end of the Cold War, reports the New York Times in a front-page expose. Soviet officials hastily shipped it to the area, […]
