SF New Mexican:
Effects of wildfires on wildlife inflated
ENS:
Animal manure fouling Chesapeake Bay. “The report calls on Bay states to lobby the federal government to fund the $20 million Chesapeake Bay Working Lands Nutrient Reduction Pilot Program. Although it was granted authority by Congress in the 2002 Farm Bill, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has not implemented the program.” Better move fast ... if the Bush Administration wins a second term, you’d better believe they’ll be aiming at weakening the Clean Water Act again, since they were barely shot down in December 2003.
ENS:
Bush Roadless Rule Change Puts 23 Parks at Risk. “No Department of the Interior Secretary worth his or her salt would stand by and allow this indirect attack on our national parks to go unchallenged.”
NY Times Editorial:
A novel tactic on warming. “The novel basis for their action is the common law of public nuisance, and the states will have to persuade a judge that global warming is a “public nuisance’’ that harms, or might harm, the residents of the states bringing the action.” If the Federal Government won’t act, it is up to the states.
CNN:
Dead whales after NATO exercises. “Fourteen whales beached in the Canaries in 2002 during multinational military exercises there. It was one of several mass strandings of whales that scientists have linked to the use of naval sonar systems. A year later, researchers published a study in the science journal Nature that found sonar may cause a type of decompression sickness in whales and dolphins.”
NY Times Letters to the Editor:
Visitor in the Wilderness. It is a sad fact, that when one tries to ‘save’ a wilderness, the publicity generates enough foot traffic to destroy that wilderness.
SF New Mexican:
DOE knew of WIPP shipment problems. “The argument is over when DOE realized that waste being shipped from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory to the underground repository near Carlsbad hadn’t been tested for explosives and other dangerous chemicals.” If we’re having such problems, I’d advise those in Washington, Oregon, Nevada to pay more attention to this. WIPP drives nuclear waste within two miles of my house, so my brows rise on every article ...
NY Times Editorial:
Lost in the haze. Hear, hear. The pollution from Los Angeles gets blown wholesale right into the Grand Canyon, completely obscuring the views at times.
SF New Mexico:
US Interior Secretary Gail Norton says water is a state issue. What a blooming idiot.
Eircom.net:
Global warming melting Peruvian peaks.
PlanetArk.com:
NYC, Eight States Sue Utilities Over Emissions. “The lawsuit - the first by state and local governments against private companies over carbon dioxide emissions blamed for contributing to global warming - demands cuts in pollution but does not seek monetary damages ...”
Zack’s:
It is getting harder and more expensive to find new reserves of oil and gas. “Russia is increasingly considered to be a major source of long-term growth for the industry. [snip] Other promising growth areas include the Iraqi market, Saudi Arabia’s natural gas market, and the U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. Companies with exposure to these markets are better placed than others to achieve long-term growth.”
Bellaciao:
US lawyers confident of justice for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims. “Vietnam says the United States has a moral and humanitarian responsibility to heal the wounds of the war but it has never formally asked for compensation for Agent Orange victims. Washington, however, insists there is no direct evidence linking dioxin with any illnesses.” This is an indefensible position on America’s part. More on dioxin.
ENN/AP:
“The head of the Environmental Protection Agency for two Republican presidents criticized President Bush’s record on Monday, calling it a ‘polluter protection’ policy.”
CNN:
Court orders Bhopal victim payouts. It’s taken 20 years; how much longer?
CNN:
Stop blaming the raptor for the fire.
New Scientist:
Plutonium cancer risk may be higher than thought. Interesting, when many anti-environmentals think current plutonium limits are illogically strict.
NY Times Editorial:
Surrender in the forests. “There are already 365,000 miles of roads in the roughly 90 million acres of national forests that are and will remain open to commercial development. Many of these roads are in poor shape, crying out for maintenance. It makes no economic sense to build more.” Rape and pillage, plain and simple.
SF New Mexican Editorial:
GOP should loosen their ties to chainsaws and bulldozers. “This, from the White House view, is a wonderful exercise in states’ rights. Forget that the federal government is responsible for our national forests — and, for Pete’s sake, don’t even mention national and multinational corporations’ influence among our region’s governors.” My italics.
NY Times:
This sounds pretty neat. Softening a City With Grit and Grass. I get a kick from formal gardens.
SF New Mexican:
Redford on record. “Don’t try to change this administration ; they’re not going to change ... [snip] ... They seem to almost enjoy trying to destroy the environment.”
I have to comment on this last quote, from a Bush/Cheney campaign spokesman: “... obviously, if they’re going to go out and misrepresent the president’s record, you can only assume that they’re doing so on behalf of the most liberal candidate in the history of American politics.” My italics. Made me laugh. Everyone since McGovern has been labelled that. Change the record, please.
SF New Mexican:
More on our tangled water rights in NM.
National Interagency Fire Center:
Overlooked this, July 2. Some airtankers to return to service. [PDF] P-3 Orions; not the big ones, but some is better than none.
ChannelNewsAsia:
Oh, how quickly the media drop a story. Oil prices slip as OPEC increases output above official quotas. Sad that I have to hit an offshore news organ to get this kind of info. You’d think it would be front page.
NY Times:
Bush seeks shift in logging rules. I seek a shift in the Executive Office ...
