AltWeeklies Wire
Cumberland Island Will Be Open to Autosnew
Until recently, the north end of Georgia's Cumberland Island was one of the more remote places in the Southeast. Most people could reach it only by foot. Now automobiles will be widely allowed on previously protected parts of the island, due to the work of U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
12-02-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Reawakeningnew
Central Illinois is the site of one of the nation's most ambitious floodplain restoration projects. The Nature Conservancy has assembled a 7,000-acre preserve called Emiquon where two lakes were drained
80 years ago for agriculture.
Illinois Times |
Jeanne Townsend Handy |
11-30-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Arizona's Fossil Creek to Be Revivednew
Nearly 90 percent of Arizona's native riparian stream systems have been lost, and more than half of its native fish species are endangered. But business leaders and environmentalists are working together to restore Fossil Creek.
Phoenix New Times |
John Dougherty |
11-09-2004 |
Environment
Federal Investigators Search for Answers to Plant Explosionnew
More than seven months after the fatal explosion at Formosa Plastics Corp. in Illiopolis, Ill., federal investigators have finally gained access to the
long-restricted area of the chemical plant where the incident occurred.
Illinois Times |
Todd Spivak |
11-05-2004 |
Environment
Bison Range Reversalsnew
Critics of a groundbreaking agreement between the feds and the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribe to manage Montana's National Bison Range look north to Alaska, and find oil in the details.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-29-2004 |
Environment
Market Sharenew
An ex-basketball star's urban agro-project is an example of a new kind of entrepreurialism with kind profits.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
10-28-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
EPA Finds Fetuses at Cleanup Site; Origins a Mysterynew
After spending months trying to identify the contents of unmarked barrels -- some of which were leaking hazardous liquids -- an EPA agent found something unnerving in one five-gallon plastic bucket: two fetuses and a placenta, mainly intact and preserved in glass jars.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
10-28-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Circle Game: Pluses and Pitfalls of Local Recyclingnew
Recycling isn't as simple as putting plastics and glass in the recycling bin. Cecil Bothwell describes what works in local recycling, what doesn't and why bottled water is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
10-27-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment, lead, carcinogen, glass, MRF, murpf, PET, phthalate, plastic, plastic film bags, recycle
Peace Activist Warns Students to Be Afraid...Very Afraidnew
Anti-nuke crusader Helen Caldicott tells Illinois Wesleyan University students that they live in a dangerous area, with a nuclear-power plant just 24 miles away.
Illinois Times |
Todd Spivak |
10-18-2004 |
Environment
Staking Out Peaceful Groundnew
A gathering of global green thumbs proves community gardens can weed out age-old hatreds.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
10-08-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Fate of Illinois's Natural Resources Increasingly Falls on Volunteersnew
An environmental group has released what is widely being hailed as the most comprehensive inventory of natural areas ever compiled in central Illinois. The group's efforts come at a time when the administration of Gov. Rod Blagojevich is hacking away at the state's conservation efforts.
Illinois Times |
Todd Spivak |
10-08-2004 |
Environment
Bush's Radical Agenda: Bobby Kennedy Jr. Takes On Dirty Airnew
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading environmental attorney, speaks out on how White House air quality policies are responsible for the deaths of 30,000 Americans each year; and how 630,000 U.S. children are born each year exposed to dangerous mercury levels in the womb.
Eugene Weekly |
Ted Taylor |
10-06-2004 |
Environment
Rocky Mountain National Park Gets Loved to Deathnew
Besieged by 3 million visitors a year and another 3 million polluting neighbors at its doorstep, Colorado's premier national park is a vanishing wilderness.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
09-29-2004 |
Environment
Tags: Colorado, environment, National Park Service, Wildlife, Colorado River, Bear Lake Road, climbing guide, Coalition of Concerned National Park Service Retirees, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado's Fourteeners, elk herd, Enos Mills, Estes Park, Fort Collins or Boulder, George Wallace, Gerry Roach, Mark Magnuson, National Parks Conservation Association, natural resources, naturalist, nitrogen emissions, park biologist Karl Cordova, retirees, Rocky Mountains, RVs, U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Jill Baron
Environmental Defense Fund Embarks on Shame Campaign Over Damnew
To obtain a pristine water supply, San Francisco dammed the Tuolumne River a century ago, filling the Hetch Hetchy Valley with water. Now an Environmental Defense Fund study argues that the valley could be restored without harming the city's water and electricity supplies.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
09-28-2004 |
Environment
Good News for Chattahoochee National Forest, For Nownew
A proposal seeks to modify what's called the "Roadless Rule." Under the change, protections from road-building would no longer be automatic. Instead, governors would have to request the stronger protection.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
09-23-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
