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| | | | | | Latest Articles SubmittedThe Big Bad Wolf - Gary Ferguson (LA Times)  | | published 4/30/2008, submitted by Frank K 11 days ago | | The grey wolf was removed from the endangered species list on March 28, 2008, an act which has since ignited a killing spree in the northern Rocky Mountains. In Wyoming alone, at least 16 wolves have been shot since they came off the federal endangered species list on March 28 -- including two within the first 24 hours, ambushed by hunters waiting near an elk wintering ground. | |
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| | EPA, Army Corps Square Off Over Mississippi Delta Drainage Plan - James M. Taylor (Heartland) | | published 4/1/2008, submitted by Frank K 13 days ago | | The U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are squaring off over an Army Corps proposal to seasonally drain 67,000 acres of wetlands adjacent to the lower Mississippi River. The Army Corps wants to spend $220 million to build a pumping station in the Yazoo River Basin arguing that the project is necessary to protect agricultural lands and approximately 1,000 homes from potential flooding. | |
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| | Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later - Michael Grunwald (Time Magazine) | | published 8/5/2007, submitted by Frank K 13 days ago | | The most important thing to remember about the drowning of New Orleans is that it wasn't a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster, created by lousy engineering, misplaced priorities and pork-barrel politics. The real culprit was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which bungled the levees that formed the city's man-made defenses and ravaged the wetlands that once formed its natural defenses. | |
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| | Army Corps proposes easing Gulf wetlands rule - Mike Stuckey (MSNBC) | | published 10/19/2006, submitted by Frank K 13 days ago | | Federal wetlands regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a little-publicized proposal to relax restrictions on filling in certain wetlands along the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast to speed recovery from Hurricane Katrina. “It’s unethical, illegal, immoral, unsustainable and they’re simply doing it to make the fat cats richer faster,”said Derrick Evans, of a Gulfport, Miss., community group. | |
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| | Finland's Rational Approach to Nuclear Power - Jack Spencer (Heritage Foundation) | | published 3/19/2008, submitted by Frank K 19 days ago | | Finland is developing a broad mix of environmentally friendly, economically competitive energy sources. Nuclear energy is an important part of that effort. Not only has Finland begun to construct a new, modern 1,600-megawatt reactor, but it is successfully executing a cohesive, workable strategy to manage spent fuel. The United States has done neither. | |
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| | What Nuclear Renaissance? - Christian Parenti (The Nation) | | published 4/24/2008, submitted by Frank K 20 days ago | | In an effort to jump-start a "nuclear renaissance," the Bush Administration has pushed one package of subsidies after another. A program of federal loan guarantees amounting to $18.5 billion has sat waiting for utilities to build nukes. So why is the much-storied "nuclear renaissance" so slow to get rolling? In a nutshell, blame Warren Buffett, and the banks--they won't put up the cash. | |
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| | Running on Empty - Mark Hertsgaard (The Nation) | | published 4/24/2008, submitted by Frank K 20 days ago | | The arrival of $119 bbl crude and $4 gal gasoline are obvious signs that global oil production has or soon will peak. With global demand rising and supplies limited, higher, more volatile prices and shortages could provoke--to quote the title of the must-see peak oil documentary--the end of suburbia. The world's economy and, paradoxically, the fight against climate change could be in deep trouble. | |
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| | Rivers Running Dry - Jeneen Interlandi (Newsweek) | | published 2/28/2008, submitted by Frank K 22 days ago | | A water crisis is impending. In a new book, Jeffrey Sachs outlines easy, low-cost technical and economic strategies to avoid disaster. But implementing any of these takes planning, organization and leadership. "Politicians don't want to bear the costs of adjustment," Sachs says. "So they ignore the problem and continue the same unsustainable practices." | |
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| | Carbon Dioxide, Methane Rise Sharply in 2007 - National Ocean and Atmospheric Adminstration | | published 4/28/2008, submitted by Frank K 22 days ago | | Last year global levels of atmospheric CO2, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 pct, or 19 billion tons. In addition methane rose by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or no increase. The burning of coal, oil, and gas, is the primary source of increasing CO2 emissions. Oceans, vegetation, and soils soak up half of these emissions. The rest stays in the air for centuries. | |
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| | McCain Under Fire Over Environment Record - Elana Schor (The Guardian) | | published 3/27/2008, submitted by Frank K 25 days ago | | When the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released its annual environmental rankings last month, McCain - whose campaign website declares him “a leader on the issue of global warming” - earned a zero for missing all of the group’s votes on key green issues. He was one of nine Republicans scoring the lowest possible rating. | |
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Latest Environmental Quotes Submitted| "According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. - UN FAO" | | quoted on 11/29/2006 by UN FAO | |
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| | "It is time to break our addiction to fossil fuels. The evidence of global warming is mounting. We threaten the global environment with our continued use of fossil fuels. Not only is this an ecological threat, it is a tremendous economic threat, facing all of humanity. Global warming will bankrupt the re-insurance industry, spread infectious tropical diseases, and increase severe and unpredictable weather" | | quoted on 2/3/2008 by Ralph Nader | |
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| | "There's nothing wrong with dealing with global warming. And it's a high priority for me. But there is a big difference between talking about global warming, which requires global solutions, and the idea of America warming. No one talks about America warming. If we're going to have solutions that deal, for instance, with a cap in trade program or a BTU tax or anything of that nature, it has to be global in its sweep." | | quoted on 1/13/2008 by Mitt Romney | |
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| | "Today, in California where we are famous for the sun, we are going to put the positive benefits of that sun to good use. Through the 'Million Solar Roofs Initiative' and the willingness of the building community to join us in this effort, we will succeed in providing a stable alternative source of energy."" | | quoted on 2/28/2005 by Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
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| | Latest Environmental Facts Submitted| "In the U.S. we generate 300 pounds of packaging waste per person each year and 32% of the entire domestic waste stream consists of containers and packaging." | | published 3/3/2008 by Dogwood Alliance | |
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| | "Producing a typical lunch--hamburger, French fries, and a soft drink--uses 1500 gallons of water including the water needed to raise the potatoes, the grain for the bun and the grain needed to feed the cattle, and the production of the soda." | | published 2/25/2008 by Cool Water Facts - Colorado State University | |
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| | "About 2.5% of the Earth’s water is freshwater, and most is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets. " | | published 2/24/2008 by Green Facts | |
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| | "About 96% of all liquid freshwater can be found underground, and the remaining small fraction is on the surface or in the air." | | published 2/24/2008 by Green Facts | |
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