A new report from Earthworks and Oxfam America, Dirty
Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment, details the waste
and pollution produced by modern mining
Items by Jodi Peterson
Arizona activists team up with Rep. Raul Grijalva to
create a small-scale wilderness proposal for the Tumacacori
Highlands
Earthjustice, best known for legal service for
environmental causes, has released a CD with a message of making
tomorrow better
Plans for permanently storing carbon dioxide in oil fields
will benefit energy companies who already use carbon dioxide
injection to boost output.
Lake Mead has dropped to about 58 percent of its capacity,
and the quality of the water has changed, causing more expensive
production and increased danger of not meeting health
standards
Emile Buchwald’s Toward the Livable City offers
essays and art to entice readers toward the antidote to suburban
sprawl – sustainable, vital, high-density cities
Disappearing habitat and an increase in hunting quotas
based on politics and guesswork are threatening the stability of
mountain lion populations in the West.
A new report, Making the Most of Science in the American
West: An Experiment, aims at teaching Westerners to work with
scientists to avoid environmental conflicts, according to co-author
Patricia Nelson Limerick
The upcoming 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act is
being celebrated with "Wilderness Hero" award nominations,
sponsored by a range of conservation groups
Aerospace and defense company GenCorp wants to build a new
development on its former rocket-testing site near Sacramento,
Calif., but critics are worried about old pollutants in the
groundwater
In The Beast in the Garden, David Baron looks at our
changing relationships with predators, focusing on the death of a
young Colorado man who was killed by a mountain lion
The Bureau of Land Management plans to revise its
Clinton-era grazing regulations, and critics say the changes will
let ranchers ride roughshod over the public lands
The European-owned company LES wants to produce nuclear
fuel near Eunice, N.M., but has yet to come up with a plan for
storing the highly toxic, radioactive byproduct
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour bans the use of 38
pesticides near streams that host endangered runs of salmon and
steelhead in Washington, Oregon and California
NativeVote 2004 seeks to rally as many American Indians as
possible to register and vote in the November election
New Colorado interns Jodi Peterson and Alex Pasquariello;
anatomical accuracy of Maryann Webster’s HCN cover
painting
The Bureau of Land Management is studying the prospects
for developing wind energy on Western public lands
A coalition called America Votes plans to educate voters
and work with grassroots groups across the country to pump up
election-day turnout
A report from the Center of the American West --
What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy
– explains why the West is stuck in the middle of the
nation’s energy fight
The Paonia, Colorado-based Center for Native Ecosystems
tries to look out for the kind of endangered species often
neglected by other groups
A new report by the BLM and the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory details the opportunities for renewable energy
development on Western public lands
Welcome to summer interns Tony Barboza and Patrick
Farrell; visitors; Grist wins Web site award
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