en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Top headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 For most locals, getting the sewage out of Lake Washington beginning in the late 1960s was a good thing. Not so for the threespine stickleback. For the little fish, the pollution and associated algal murk was good cover to protect it from hungry trout. When the waste and water cleared, the stickleback faced a genetic scramble to evolve into a more protected, armored and ancestral version of itself. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363263_oddfish16.html Environment Pollution & Toxics Wildlife Washington 05/16/2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer When sonar surveys spotted a vast pile of rubble in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam late last winter, officials suddenly worried that part of the dam structure was eroding into the river. What they found below the spillways in February was not a giant pile of rock at all, but a humongous pile of thousands upon thousands of sturgeon -- some of them 14 feet long or longer -- lounging together in frigid water at the bottom of the river. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/121091010848010.xml&coll=7 Environment Wildlife Oregon US Northwest Washington 05/16/2008 Portland Oregonian If the measure becomes law, California would be the first state in the nation to ban the plastics ingredient bisphenol A in any consumer product. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/BAM610NCFR.DTL Environment Human Health Policy Pollution & Toxics California 05/16/2008 San Francisco Chronicle The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to rank-and-file agency scientists and park managers who oppose the plan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051502880.html Climate Environment Pollution & Toxics United States 05/16/2008 Washington Post In the age of global warming, public land managers face a stark choice: They can let national parks and other wildlands lose their most cherished wildlife. Or they can become gardeners and zookeepers. http://www.missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=E92F38AB-14D1-13A2-9FCD63559142CDAA&page=1 Climate Environment Wildlife Montana United States 05/16/2008 Missoula Independent A new public health study that looked at more than 500 young aboriginal drug users in two British Columbia cities produced such shocking data that people wept openly when it was first presented to a panel of elders. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080516.BCHEALTH16/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/ Human Health Native Peoples British Columbia Canada 05/16/2008 Toronto Globe and Mail The emergency contraceptive pill Plan B will now be sold on the front shelves of Canadian pharmacies without any medical consultation after a landmark decision came down Thursday to make the drug more accessible. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=eb9a322c-0b86-414c-8a28-a21d22c8c6a3 Human Health Population Canada 05/16/2008 Vancouver Sun The bumps on a humpback's fins inspire a new line of green-tech blades for turbines, fans, and maybe the home. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0516/p13s01-stgn.html Energy Environment Green Business Wildlife Canada 05/16/2008 Christian Science Monitor While Oregon ranks at just about the national average in the percentage of its workers who have good jobs, that's not particularly good news: Nearly three out of every four Oregon jobs pay less than $17 an hour or don't provide health care and pension benefits. And the situation is likely to worsen soon because wages are not keeping pace with rising food and energy prices. http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1210803912215060.xml&coll=7 Economy Oregon United States 05/16/2008 Portland Oregonian New Urbanism is dangerous because it claims to cure the very sprawl and social class separation that it causes. There are worse ways to develop the suburbs, but none are so two-faced. The New Urbanism is city planning's equivalent of the "compact SUV." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080516.VANBODDY16/TPStory/TPEntertainment/BritishColumbia/ Environment Sprawl & Transportation British Columbia 05/16/2008 Toronto Globe and Mail