The Bush "pants on fire" mobile visits; Ed Marston at the
Sopris Foundation meeting in Aspen; Adam Burke on NPR; Lisa
Lombardi in Australia; and Auden and Ellen Schendler welcome a baby
girl
Items by Laura Paskus
Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for West
Jordan, Utah, lumberyard arson; Nuclear Regulatory Commission
won’t listen to concerns about New Mexico’s proposed
uranium-enrichment plant; warm waters in the Klamath may cause huge
fish kill
The biologist who blew the whistle on the National Marine
Fisheries Service over Klamath River fish kill, resigns from his
agency to protest the triumph of politics over science.
In A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and
Public Art in New Mexico, Jacqueline Hoefer explores the
wide range of public artworks created in the state in the 1930s,
under Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration
Judge rules citizens can petition to have "candidate"
species listed as endangered; genetically engineered salmon eat
regular salmon; genetically engineered corn planted in Colorado;
Energy Department plans to ship weapons grade plutonium and
enriched ura
Phelps Dodge told to clean up New Mexico groundwater;
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. appeals verdict on cattle-price fixing;
Lahontan cutthroat trout tagged in Nevada; National Organic Program
decides not to loosen organic food standards
Some activists hope that the current hard times facing
both workers and the environment will resurrect the strong
alliances that once existed between greens and labor
unions
Duwamish Indian Tribe, still fighting U.S. government over
recognition, has bought its first piece of "owned" land near Port
of Seattle, Washington
Controversial energy bill, to increase domestic oil and
gas drilling and force federal agencies to expedite permits for
energy projects on public lands, came back yet again, but was
defeated in the Senate, 50-47
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo spent $1.5 million to defeat Michael
Kennedy, Democratic challenger who missed the filing deadline by
seconds; Montana Democrat Margarett Campbell, an Assiniboine Tribe
member, is running in a newly formed (2000) leg
Steve Williams, head of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
tells Congress that money for critical habitat for endangered
species could be better spent elsewhere; National Security
Administration head asks Congress for more money for nuke bomb
site, and Rep.
John Kerry vs. Barbara Cubin and Richard Pombo on oil; FBI
arrests William Jensen Cottrell for California SUV arson; and
Forest Service paid public relations firm $90,000 for "Forests With
a Future" campaign and slogan
California decides to set its own new "public health goal"
for perchlorate contamination, but critics point out that it is
both legally unenforceable and lower than the previous
goal
Campaign to Protect America’s Lands seeks tips from
Interior Department employees; Montana Mining Association wants to
repeal state’s cyanide ban; Reps. Henry Waxman and Tom Davis
complain to USDA after they learn Washington mad cow wasn’t a
downer; and R
Federal judges fight over snowmobiles in Yellowstone;
Kennewick Man is scientific data, not sacred remains; Arlo Looking
Glass convicted in murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash; and Union of
Concerned Scientists says Bush administration systematically
abuses
Ruben Cobos’ new book, A Dictionary of New Mexico
and Southern Colorado Spanish, is an entertaining introduction to
the unique Spanish dialect spoken in the Southwest
President Bush’s budget will cut money for EPA and
NOAA, give money for logging; Bush’s budget counts on
drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and pushes coalbed
methane; Modern Pit Facility decision delayed by nuclear agency;
and Department of Hea
Even when environmentalists win in the courtroom, Congress
can overturn the court’s interpretation of an existing law by
passing a new one
Logging to be allowed on California’s Giant Sequoia
National Monument; rules relaxed on checking contents of containers
shipped to WIPP; environmental and public health groups sue EPA for
approving pesticides that harm wildlife; and Alaska’s
National Petr
The environmental laws designed to protect nature for
future generations may not survive this generation, unless things
change
In Writing the Southwest, editors David King Dunaway and
Sara Spurgeon collect interviews with 14 Southwestern writers, and
provide a CD of their voices as well
Bush administration backs off on removing "isolated
wetlands" from Clean Water Act protection; EPA’s Bruce
Buckheit and J.P. Suarez leave for different reasons; Wal-Mart
cracks down on protest; New Mexico vs. Los Alamos National
Laboratory
In Hispanic Albuquerque: 1706-1846,
Marc Simmons takes readers on a fascinating journey through the
history of the Duke City in New Mexico
EPA boss Mike Leavitt approves Bush’s Clear Skies
Initiative; Bush signs Healthy Forests Restoration Act; Forest
Service lays off workers to privatize jobs; and former government
officials form Environment 2004 to criticize Bush’s
environmental policies
$11 million is set aside for a nuclear trigger factory
that Carlsbad, N.M., is hoping to host; Yucca Mountain, Nev., gets
$580 million for nuclear waste storage; no extra water for the Rio
Grande silvery minnow; Pentagon wins exemptions to environmental
l
Congress sets aside money for new nuclear weapons research
and tells the Nevada Test Site to get ready for nuclear
weapons-testing
Laura Paskus used to love election day even more than
Thanksgiving; these days she's having doubts
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in talks with Army
Corps over Missouri River; Wyoming rancher Frank Robbins holds
protest rally; "Volunteer Grazing Permit Buying Act" in Congress;
and Interior ordered to pay tribes $2 million to make up for
drilling
Former employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory are
seeking information about and compensation for serious health
problems caused by their work with radiation and other toxic
materials
Historian and professor Ferenc Szasz says comics were used
to reassure the public about nuclear issues during the 1940s and
‘50s
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