2005 Global Environmental Citizen: The Honorable Al Gore Former vice president Al Gore delivered a speech about global warming upon accepting the Global Environmental Citizen Award from the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. The award was conferred on Oct. 21 in New York by Eric Chivian, MD, director of […]
Month: October 2005
No Justice and No Accountability
When Vicente Fox visited the offices of the Comite para la Proteccion de Periodistas (Committee for the Protection of Journalists, CPJ), he expressed approval of their proposal that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate crimes against freedom of expression. He stated that this would be “a strong and positive step forward”. However, five weeks […]
An inside view of society’s outsiders (Eva Aridjis)
Some emerging filmmakers might freak out if they had to share a shooting locale with Steven Spielberg. But Eva Aridjis always has been drawn to offbeat situations. Offbeat people too. “I think the one common theme that I always have in mind is kind of the misfit,” says Aridjis, referring to her small but impressive, […]
Owners to limit growth at oasis
Baja deal would mark an unusual alliance It is one of Mexico’s most remote regions, a vast landscape of water and earth where migratory birds feed, mangroves thrive and gray whales migrate to breed and bear their young. For years, conservation groups from both sides of the border have fought to preserve the Laguna San […]
Striper Wars
In his chronicle of the decades-long fight to save the striped bass, Dick Russell offers a first-hand account of the interplay of politics, public relations, and litigation that are present in all environment battles. The story of striped bass is also the story of Storm King mountain, the Westway Project, and Riverkeeper. It’s about George […]
Navy sued over harm to whales from mid-frequency sonar
Simple precautions could protect majestic creatures LOS ANGELES (October 19, 2005) – Ear-splitting sonar used throughout the world’s oceans during routine testing and training by the United States Navy harms marine mammals in violation of bedrock environmental laws, according to a lawsuit filed here today in federal court. Whales, dolphins and other marine animals could […]
Pombo sponsors resolution to help boost Makah whaling effort
WASHINGTON – The House Resources Committee on Wednesday gave a boost to the Makah Tribe’s bid to resume whale hunting off the coast of Washington state. The panel approved a nonbinding resolution urging the Bush administration to uphold whaling rights guaranteed to the tribe under an 1855 treaty with the federal government. The resolution, sponsored […]
Global Warming, Hurricanes, And the American Response
Talk delivered by Dick Russell at the 3rd International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature, Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), October 15, 2005. [Note: Since Ross Gelbspan was unable to attend the Forum, much of this talk is drawn from his articles appearing in the Boston Globe (August 30, 2005) and The American Prospect (October […]
Liquefied Natural Disaster?
Maybe there will be one up side to Katrina and Rita’s recent roaring up the Gulf of Mexico – rethinking whether to site an open-loop Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal off Louisiana’s Southeast coast. Back in July, a coalition of fishermen and environmental groups calling themselves the “Gumbo Alliance for Safe LNG” came together to […]
Choice for Head of Wildlife Agency Provokes Dissent
This morning, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is likely to easily approve the nomination of Dale Hall, a regional director in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to head the agency — making the full Senate vote a formality. It’s the kind of vote that makes environmentalists cringe. Hall, a 27-year Fish and […]