News Release U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey For release: August 14, 2008 Contact: William Alley, 619-225-6125, walley@usgs.gov Jennifer LaVista, 703-648-4432, jlavista@usgs.gov Strategy to Assess the Nation’s Ground-Water Availability Declines in ground-water levels have led to concerns about the future availability of ground water, which provides half… Continue reading
Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/13/10973/ Rainforest Action Network Missive Urges Hundreds of Companies to Stop Using Palm Oil http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0813-03.htm Dispute Raises Doubts Over Brazil’s Amazon Dams http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1351739920080813 ———————————————————————————— Continue reading
Intact Roadless Areas & Climate Stability…another no-brainer. ASW Re: your Colorado forests e-mail “The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.” — Edward Abbey — On Wed, 8/13/08, Ceal Smith <slvwater@theriver.com> wrote: From: Ceal Smith <slvwater@theriver.com> Subject: FW: TWS statement on Roadless Rule injunction To: “winter ross”… Continue reading
Published on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 by MSNBC Bush Plan Takes Scientists Out of Decision Making On Endangered Species Status MSNBC staff and news service reports WASHINGTON – The Bush administration on Monday said it plans to let federal agencies decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction… Continue reading