Climate & Pollution
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Book Reviews
All's fair in smog and waste?
A new Web site created by the Oakland, Calif., nonprofit Environmental Defense gathers information about environmental and health dangers in any community in the U.S.
by Laurel Jones, Nov 05, 2001 -
News
The smog is lifting
After decades of cleanup efforts, Denver, Colo., is about to receive clean-air status from the Environmental Protection Agency.
by Erika Trautman, Oct 08, 2001 -
News
New dump may trash Tacoma's water
Local critics worry that a new landfill may pollute drinking water used by Eatonville and Tacoma, Wash.
by Kasia Pierzga, Sep 10, 2001 -
News
Texaco spill leaves residents fuming
Some citizens of Sunburst, Mont., feel that Texaco has not done enough to clean up an underground gasoline pool left from a toxic spill 46 years ago.
by Rachel Jackson, Sep 10, 2001 -
News
Drought drains the West
A look at the weather throughout the West shows lower-than-usual snowpacks and a lot of drought, making life hard for farmers and fish, and leading to fears of another fierce wildfire season.
by Rebecca Clarren, May 07, 2001 -
News
Company leaves victims in its dust
In Libby, Mont., residents who are sick or dying of exposure to asbestos from W.R. Grace's vermiculite mine are outraged by the company's decision to file for bankruptcy in the face of their lawsuits.
by Jane Fritz, Apr 23, 2001 -
Opinion
I am an Inuit warrior
It's not easy being a person who lives in a high mountain ski town but hates snow and winter weather.
by Lou Bendrick, Feb 12, 2001 -
News
Will Western skies be clear enough?
The Western Regional Air Partnership has a plan to clear the air over the Colorado Plateau, but critics say the plan is much too soft and likely to prove ineffective.
by Oakley Brooks, Oct 09, 2000 -
News
Cement glues citizens together
Pueblo, Colo., citizens, who worked for years to restore air and water polluted by their city's one-time steel mills, now fear a planned cement manufacturing plant will make their newly livable community unlivable and polluted once again.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Aug 28, 2000 -
News
Composting takes out the trash
California has cut its landfill waste by 40 percent, and some give composting the credit.
by Rebecca Clarren, Aug 14, 2000 -
News
Dumping diesel
Southern California is trying to reduce diesel emissions by turning to cleaner-burning energy sources for public vehicles.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Aug 14, 2000 -
News
Los Alamos races against time
In the wake of the Cerro Grande fire, Los Alamos faces a new problem: how to prevent summer rainstorms from flooding the fire-denuded canyons and washing the laboratory's hazardous wastes into the Rio Grande.
by Tony Davis, Jul 03, 2000 -
News
Mining tops toxic list
Hardrock mining tops the list of industrial polluters in the EPA's annual Toxics Release Inventory.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Jun 05, 2000 -
News
Western weather waffles
A look at this last winter in the West shows snow in the Northwest and Sierra Nevada, variable weather in the Rockies, and what looks like the beginning of a long, hot, dry summer in the Southwest.
by Catherine Lutz, May 08, 2000 -
News
Boss must pay for poisoning employee
In a precedent-setting case, Allan Elias is convicted of "knowing endangerment" for exposing employee Scott Dominguez to cyanide in an accident that damaged his nervous system.
by Kurt Friedemann, Apr 10, 2000






