Editor's Take: March 07, 2008
Gordon as Arnold.
B.C. Climate Smackdown: Premier Gordo vs. King Coal
What a difference a carbon tax shift makes. The B.C. Liberals are longtime buddies of the province's corporate interests. Now, big business is thwarting the government's climate policy with a really big polluter -- coal power. Just how dirty is coal? See Wednesday's Oregonian. The paper reported that one coal plant emits most of the pollution blanketing the Columbia Gorge.
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Pity the Poor Carbon Tax. Killed by Coal at Such a Young Age
Toronto Globe and Mail
03/07/2008
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper is the oldest mill of its kind in B.C. and perhaps that sense of permanence has made it bold. Or maybe it's a sign of the desperate times facing the coastal forest industry. But few B.C. businesses have risked the open defiance of Premier Gordon Campbell's climate action agenda shown by the mill's management.
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Smelt Vanish from Region's Rivers
Tacoma News Tribune
03/07/2008
They didn’t talk about the one that got away. Instead, the disgruntled sport fishermen who crowded the banks of one of Southwest Washington’s most popular rivers in February mourned the fish that never were.
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Columbia River: A Polluted Lifeblood
Oregonian
03/07/2008
The 146 miles of the Columbia River from the Bonneville Dam to the Pacific Ocean, in some spots industrialized and in long stretches post-card beautiful, carries a low-level suite of toxics from flame retardants to prescription drugs to pesticides.
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Washington's Toxic Toys Bill Hits Wall
Tacoma News Tribune
03/07/2008
High-paid lobbyists and controversial amendments could doom a bill in the state Legislature aimed at protecting children from lead in toys.
Washington’s proposed “toxic toys” bill would create upper limits for lead, phthalates and cadmium in children’s toys and products. It also would authorize the state Department of Ecology to ban other chemicals deemed harmful.
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Idaho Gets Nuclear Waste
Boise Idaho Statesman
03/07/2008
The U.S. Department of Energy will begin shipping nuclear waste to the Idaho National Laboratory for treatment before sending it on to a waste storage site in New Mexico, department officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Mythic White Orca Photographed in Alaska
Anchorage Daily News
03/07/2008
A white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and their ship's crew scrambling for their cameras.The nearly mythic whale was real after all.
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The West Will Rise Again
Outside Magazine
03/07/2008
Their fathers were titans. Their family defined conservation in the West. Now, with two Senate seats up for grabs, cousins Mark and Tom Udall have the chance to bring green leadership to Washington when it's needed most. Can the boys man up the way their dads did a generation ago?
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Seattle's Poor have Vehicles, but Nowhere to Go
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
03/07/2008
Thursday morning, Seattle police orange-tagged the small, semi-mobile neighborhood of aging, stitched-up RVs, trailers and live-in cars with 72-hour notices to leave or get towed.
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Investors File Flurry of Global-Warming Resolutions
San Francisco Business Journal
03/07/2008
U.S. investors have filed a record 54 shareholder resolutions with U.S. companies facing "far-reaching business impacts from climate change," according to a coalition of investors demanding that corporations include tangible responses to climate change in their basic business strategies.
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Federal Aid Sought in Decline of Salmon
Sacramento Bee
03/07/2008
West Coast members of Congress appealed to Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez on Thursday to declare a fishery failure, triggering federal aid because of a devastating collapse of the Sacramento River fall-run chinook.
Federal fishery managers recently said that the Sacramento River run could be the second lowest in history, potentially shutting down the West Coast commercial season. A decision on the closure could come as early as this weekend when the Pacific Fishery Management Council meets in Sacramento.
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