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Environment & Climate News
October 2006
Activists' Logging Challenge Denied After Two-Year Delay
The U.S. Forest Service ended more than two years of obstruction and delays regarding southern Appalachian forest management plans by issuing in July a ... (read more)
The U.S. Forest Service ended more than two years of obstruction and delays regarding southern Appalachian forest management plans by issuing in July a ... (read more)
Analysis: Environmental Activists Just Don't Get It
America's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are passing up a chance to earn billions of dollars by investing in technologies to reduce California's ... (read more)
America's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are passing up a chance to earn billions of dollars by investing in technologies to reduce California's ... (read more)
Calif. Passes Global Warming Measure
After more than a year of controversy and debate, the California legislature on August 31 approved Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. The ... (read more)
After more than a year of controversy and debate, the California legislature on August 31 approved Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. The ... (read more)
California Moves to Preempt Biotech Bans
The California legislature is considering a bill sponsored by state Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter) preempting individual counties from banning the growing ... (read more)
The California legislature is considering a bill sponsored by state Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter) preempting individual counties from banning the growing ... (read more)
California Wind Power Worries Environmentalists
Under pressure from environmental activist groups such as Defenders of Wildlife and the Los Angeles Audubon Society, the California Energy Commission on ... (read more)
Under pressure from environmental activist groups such as Defenders of Wildlife and the Los Angeles Audubon Society, the California Energy Commission on ... (read more)
Congressional Hearings Break 'Hockey Stick'
Experts testifying before a Congressional subcommittee on July 20 said a graph used by some environmentalists to illustrate "unprecedented global warming ... (read more)
Experts testifying before a Congressional subcommittee on July 20 said a graph used by some environmentalists to illustrate "unprecedented global warming ... (read more)
Court Rejects Mont. Challenge
A federal judge in Montana took less than four months to throw out two environmental activist challenges to a forest management plan in the Bitterroot National ... (read more)
A federal judge in Montana took less than four months to throw out two environmental activist challenges to a forest management plan in the Bitterroot National ... (read more)
Court Won't Allow Activists to Block Oil Recovery in National Petroleum Reserve
A federal appellate court on July 26 rejected a challenge from environmental activists seeking to close the National Petroleum Reserve to oil recovery. ... (read more)
A federal appellate court on July 26 rejected a challenge from environmental activists seeking to close the National Petroleum Reserve to oil recovery. ... (read more)
Drought Scare Goes Up in Smoke
Global warming is increasing Western wildfires! At least that's what lots of news stories said in response to a July 6 paper by A.L. Westerling of the Scripps ... (read more)
Global warming is increasing Western wildfires! At least that's what lots of news stories said in response to a July 6 paper by A.L. Westerling of the Scripps ... (read more)
Earth's Climate Is Always Warming or Cooling
Roger C. Altman (WSJ op-ed, June 16), a Treasury official in the Clinton administration, says he is no climatologist, but then calls for energy policies ... (read more)
Roger C. Altman (WSJ op-ed, June 16), a Treasury official in the Clinton administration, says he is no climatologist, but then calls for energy policies ... (read more)
EPA to Rule on Removal of Lead-Based House Paint
Remodelers and contractors will face new, more restrictive federal guidelines for eliminating lead dust under a proposed EPA regulation due out this fall. Some ... (read more)
Remodelers and contractors will face new, more restrictive federal guidelines for eliminating lead dust under a proposed EPA regulation due out this fall. Some ... (read more)
Free Enterprise Protects the Environment
This article is the fifth in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam: A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory and Food Safety Concerns, ... (read more)
This article is the fifth in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam: A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory and Food Safety Concerns, ... (read more)
GM Crops Saving Farm Economy from Drought
An August 11 federal government crop report shows biotechnology is saving the Midwestern farm economy from devastation in the wake of this summer's prolonged ... (read more)
An August 11 federal government crop report shows biotechnology is saving the Midwestern farm economy from devastation in the wake of this summer's prolonged ... (read more)
House, Senate to Negotiate Offshore Drilling
On August 2 the U.S. Senate passed a bill to open up 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas recovery. More modest than a competing ... (read more)
On August 2 the U.S. Senate passed a bill to open up 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas recovery. More modest than a competing ... (read more)
Incumbents Supported by Environmental Groups Lose in August 8 Primaries
Incumbent politicians rarely lose elections in the United States, so when they do, it's significant. It is even more newsworthy when an incumbent loses ... (read more)
Incumbent politicians rarely lose elections in the United States, so when they do, it's significant. It is even more newsworthy when an incumbent loses ... (read more)
Nobel Laureate Offers a Solution to Global Warming
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen, professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has set the scientific community afire with a proposal ... (read more)
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen, professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has set the scientific community afire with a proposal ... (read more)
October 2006 Environment & Climate News (PDF)
The October 2006 issue of Environment & Climate News reports states have until November 17 to decide whether they will adopt new mercury standards established ... (read more)
The October 2006 issue of Environment & Climate News reports states have until November 17 to decide whether they will adopt new mercury standards established ... (read more)
Public Favors Nuclear Power: Poll
Twice as many Americans support nuclear power as oppose it, according to a new poll by Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times. In a telephone poll of nearly ... (read more)
Twice as many Americans support nuclear power as oppose it, according to a new poll by Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times. In a telephone poll of nearly ... (read more)
Scientists Improve Rye Grass, Rice
Hay fever may take a diminished toll on allergy sufferers thanks to a just-announced genetic breakthrough. Scientists have isolated two proteins--LOLP1 ... (read more)
Hay fever may take a diminished toll on allergy sufferers thanks to a just-announced genetic breakthrough. Scientists have isolated two proteins--LOLP1 ... (read more)
Skeptics Debate Credibility of Environmentalists' Claims
On June 2-4 at the California Institute of Technology, the Skeptics Society held an eclectic "Environment Wars" conference on the state of environmental ... (read more)
On June 2-4 at the California Institute of Technology, the Skeptics Society held an eclectic "Environment Wars" conference on the state of environmental ... (read more)
States Approach Deadline for New Mercury Standards
The rapid approach of a federally mandated deadline for states to adopt new limits on manmade emissions of mercury has state officials around the nation ... (read more)
The rapid approach of a federally mandated deadline for states to adopt new limits on manmade emissions of mercury has state officials around the nation ... (read more)
Taxpayers Asked to Subsidize Renewable Boondoggle
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Tim Matheson (D-CO) have proposed legislation requiring federal taxpayers to subsidize $300 million in renewable energy ... (read more)
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Tim Matheson (D-CO) have proposed legislation requiring federal taxpayers to subsidize $300 million in renewable energy ... (read more)
Vermont Community Pushes State to Allow Aquatic Herbicides
Invasive Eurasian milfoil, a noxious weed that can choke out virtually all other life in infested lakes and ponds, is taking over Vermont's Lake Morey, ... (read more)
Invasive Eurasian milfoil, a noxious weed that can choke out virtually all other life in infested lakes and ponds, is taking over Vermont's Lake Morey, ... (read more)
Voluntary Recycling Programs a Success Without Mandates
Rusting and abandoned barges sitting on the Ohio River outside of Pittsburgh were recently removed, and the metal was recycled, by a company acting for ... (read more)
Rusting and abandoned barges sitting on the Ohio River outside of Pittsburgh were recently removed, and the metal was recycled, by a company acting for ... (read more)
