AltWeeklies Wire
The Green Partynew

Democrats get down in Charlotte — but not at the planet's peril
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
J. Lee Howard |
08-31-2012 |
Environment
Tags: DNC 2012
A Road Too Farnew

The November election presents plenty of hot-button issues. But amid the fuss about the economy and health care and other social issues, questions of how to handle our public lands and how to protect our environment also hang in the balance.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
08-28-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Election
The 'Dirty' Southnew

Mississippi's power plants make it one of the nation's dirtiest states for air pollution.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-17-2012 |
Environment
Ocean of Noisenew

The U.S. Navy's expanded sonar testing operations add to underwater cacophony for sensitive marine life.
North Bay Bohemian |
Juliane Poirier |
07-10-2012 |
Environment
Extreme Heat: The New Normalnew

Extreme heat and minimal-to-nonexistent rain are killing crops and livestock around Indiana. Other likelihoods: Higher food costs, reservoir restrictions and the rippling economic pinch.
NUVO |
Rebecca Townsend |
07-06-2012 |
Environment
Toxic Plume Contaminates N.Y. Drinking Water Wellsnew

How a toxic plume created by Grumman Aerospace Corp. and the U.S. Navy during WWII continues to contaminate more and more public drinking water supplies today.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian |
07-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Navy, water supply
'Good Stewards of the Environment'new

The U.S. Navy insists that they can protect marine mammals from the harm caused by warships using active sonar in the waters around Hawaii. What if they're wrong?
Maui Time |
Anthony Pignataro |
06-29-2012 |
Environment
Fracking Lessonsnew

What everyone in gasland can learn from the decade-long fight in Pavillion, Wyo.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
06-01-2012 |
Environment
Clam Wars Rage in Oyster Baynew

Dead Marine Life. Suppressed Information. Tens of Millions in Shellfish. A multimedia investigation documenting the struggle between a dying way of life and the last of the large commercial shellfish operations in New York.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
04-11-2012 |
Environment
Tags: environment, Long Island Press
Still Watersnew

Kayla Godowa-Tufti wants to know why white privilege has allowed timber heirs to fight to pollute the sacred waters of Waldo Lake where her ancestors once lived.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-29-2012 |
Environment
What Lies Beneathnew

The environmental horror of Florida's Rodman Dam and a lesson in rivers: past, present and future.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
03-21-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Ocklawaha River, Rodman Dam
Valmont Butte's Got a Dam Problemnew

Suspect actions on the part of the EPA and State of Colorado in their testing and analysis of potential pathways to human exposure from Allied Chemical's Valmont Butte Mill site.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller |
03-02-2012 |
Environment
Ronald Reagan and the Largest EPA Scandal in Historynew

President Ronald Reagan's controversial environmental policies may explain why Valmont Butte is still contaminated.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
02-17-2012 |
Environment
The Dirty Dance: Idaho in the Middle of a New Coal Rushnew

Plans to bring coal trains across the Northwest raise big questions.
Boise Weekly |
Zach Hagadone |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
Nuclear Waste Dump Push Will Put Texas Back in Federal Sightsnew

Nuclear energy may be on the ropes post Fukushima's explosive meltdowns, but 70 years of U.S. bomb and power plant waste doesn't dissipate so easily.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-01-2012 |
Environment