Putting Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt in charge of the
Environmental Protection Agency is like using a goldfish to guard a
junkyard
Climate Change
Wildlife cameras may be key to understanding the threatened species’ response to climate change.
How climate and cost cramp bigleaf maple syrup production.
Planning for the future of groundwater also offers an opportunity to plan for climate justice.
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, R, is President Bush’s pick
to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and some
environmentalists fear he will prove little more than a
yes-man
A day spent on skis with avalanche forecaster Jerry
Roberts is filled with stellar crystals, snow haiku and unexpected
beauty
We need a shoe to drop on climate change
A one-time New Yorker wonders if he will still love his
Western home, if the drought continues and the landscape he loves
keeps changing before his eyes.
The working-class community of Barrio Logan, on the edge
of downtown San Diego, successfully tackles a chrome-plating
business that produces dangerous chemicals
A mysterious, mostly wild dog, fed by local miners, has
somehow survived for 16 years in the desolate moonscape of a
Superfund site -- the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont.
The auto industry, backed by the Bush administration, is
trying to halt California’s progressive auto-emissions
regulations.
The "Brownfields" program, an offshoot of Superfund, is
designed to redevelop contaminated sites into real estate, but
critics say it is not always up to the challenge.
Timelines trace the birth, life and decline of the
Superfund law, both on Capitol Hill and on the ground in the
West.
Eureka, Utah, a struggling former mining town, was named a
Superfund priority site in September, but the Environmental
Protection Agency is running out of funds for cleanup, and the Bush
administration shows no interest in replacing them.
Residents of the Canon City, Colo., suburb of Lincoln Park
are fighting the proposed delivery of radioactive soil from a New
Jersey Superfund site to the Cotter Corp. uranium mill
Living with drought in cities such as Denver, Colo., has
its challenges.
Record-breaking heat and drought are frying the West, and
scientist John Harte of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in
Gothic, Colo., warns that this summer is only the kick-off for what
global warming is likely to bring.
Utah Rep. Jim Hansen proposes half a million acres of
wilderness in western Utah, but in the same amendment would dump
hazardous waste in the nearby Skull Valley Goshute
Reservation.
The West is naturally dry, according to the writer, and
people should accept that fact, especially when there is a
drought.
Duff Wilson's book, "Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a
Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret," investigates a
local agricultural chemicals provider who attempted to pass toxic
waste off as recycled fertilizer.
The fourth year of a crippling drought throughout the West
is potential for trouble, not only for farmers, but wildlife and
the human population, as well.
A family-owned business, Cordova and Sons, in Cuba City,
N.M., collects and recycles used tires for landscaping and building
projects.
Terrible birth defects among newborns in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley may be caused by agricultural and industrial
pollution, but no one knows for sure.
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