Environmentalists are delighted by a new court ruling that
says Gale Norton’s Interior Department abdicated its duty
when it refused to regulate hard-rock mining
Items by Puanani Mench
The Recreation Fee Demonstration Program is renewed until
January 2006, despite mounting criticism of the program
The House and Senate pass the Healthy Forests Restoration
Act, which environmentalists fear will do the opposite of its
name
In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Mark
Jerome Walters says that modern "ecodemics" like mad cow disease
and Lyme disease can be blamed on human meddling with
nature
Outgoing California Gov. Gray Davis signs two bills into
law to protect drinking water from perchlorate
contamination
Artificial snowmaking at Colorado ski resorts can lead to
pollution problems when water is taken from rivers contaminated by
heavy metals from mining
In Idaho, a judge rules that Hecla and Asarco are
responsible for pollution in the Silver Valley, but that the two
companies created only half the mine tailings and therefore need
pay for only half the estimated damage costs
Outgoing California Gov. Gray Davis is working with Oregon
Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Washington Gov. Gary Locke on a regionwide
plan for slowing greenhouse gas emissions
The Supreme Court refuses to hear arguments against six
national monuments that President Clinton created under the
authority of the 1906 Antiquities Act
Beryllium contamination in a Las Vegas Energy Department
complex may have come from a 1965 nuclear reactor explosion, some
85 miles away
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