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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS THIS WEEK

 

 

 

Second Timber Sale Approved Since Overturning of Roadless RuleLast week, the U.S. Forest Service approved another timber sale in an area previously protected from logging by the controversial Clinton-era "roadless rule." Both of the new timber sales are to take place in Southeast Alaska, where dwindling natural resources and a sluggish economy have conspired to drive unemployment rates to unprecedented highs. Go to all articles - Go to this article

 

 

 

Schwarzenegger Backs Ambitious Solar Plan for CaliforniaGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger is supporting proposed state legislation calling for the addition of solar energy systems to one million homes across California by 2017 to save electricity and cut pollution. Go to all articles - Go to this article

 

 

Reporting by Roddy Scheer

 

 

 

Mercury KillsThe Bush administration continues to stonewall on the subject of reducing mercury emissions, even though the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, Michael Leavitt, admitted August 24 that fish in almost all of the country’s rivers and streams are heavily dosed with the toxic heavy metal. By Jim Motavalli Go to all articles - Go to this article

 

 

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Countdown for CodOnce thought of as a resource without end, fishermen are finally bumping up against limits in the world’s cod stocks (see "A Run on the Banks," feature, March/April 2001). In North America, the catch has declined by 90 percent since the early 1980s, forcing the closing of once-thriving fisheries. Now under threat is the stock in the Barents Sea, which is fished by Russia and Norway. Go to all articles - Go to this article

 

 

FEATURES

 

 

 

Caught in a NetFifteen Years after Exxon Valdez, Alaskan Fishermen Are Still Waiting for a SettlementThe Exxon Valdez civil case, like the spill itself, is unprecedented. It began in 1990, when hundreds of fishers and Native Americans whose subsistence lifestyle had forever been altered and, in some cases, destroyed by the spill, filed lawsuits against Exxon. By Ashley Shelby Go to all articles - Go to this article

 

 

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