Environment

Katrina's Environmental Secrets

by Sheldon Rampton — September 19, 2005 - 10:20am

The Society of Environmental Journalists has criticized the government's "tight-lipped approach" in responding to requests for information about the toxic gumbo left by Hurricane Katrina. SEJ President Perry Beeman says the government is "denying the public crucial information collected with taxpayers' money on behalf of taxpayers in the first place. ...

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Society of Environmental Journalists

Playing the Blame Game

by Diane Farsetta — September 16, 2005 - 2:28pm

Jackson, Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger newspaper concluded, after obtaining an email the Justice Department sent to various U.S.

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Editor & Publisher, September 16, 2005

Legal Challenge to Australia's Bid to Deport Activist

by Bob Burton — September 12, 2005 - 4:54am

The Australian Government is facing a legal challenge to its decision to revoke the six-month visitors visa of Scott Parkin, an environmental and peace activist from the Houston Global Awareness Collective. On Saturday Parkin was arrested, six weeks after he arrived in the country, on "character grounds" and imprisoned pending deportation.

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Sydney Morning Herald, September 12, 2005

Lobbying Up a Storm

by Diane Farsetta — September 9, 2005 - 3:16pm

Following Hurricane Katrina, corporate lobbying of Congress dramatically increased, even on issues that "have little to do with hurricane relief," reports the Wall Street Journal. "Major U.S. airlines are asking Congress to suspend federal jet-fuel taxes.

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Wall Street Journal (sub. req'd.), September 9, 2005

Compassionate Conservatives Conserve Cooperatively

by Diane Farsetta — August 29, 2005 - 4:49pm

At "the first presidential conference on the environment in 40 years," opening on August 29 in St.

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Associated Press, August 29, 2005

Solid SLAPP Misses Target

by Bob Burton — August 26, 2005 - 4:13am

An application by a New Zealand government-owned coal mining company, Solid Energy, for $NZ379,342 in witness costs and legal expenses against two environmental groups has been dismissed. Forest and Bird and the Buller Conservation Group (BCG) had argued before the Environment Court against approval for a new open-cut coal mine. While the Court approved the project, it dismissed the company's costs claim.

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Forest and Bird, August 26, 2005

Radioactive Sludge

by Sheldon Rampton — August 9, 2005 - 12:38am

We first wrote about the PR campaign to market sewage sludge as fertilizer in our 1995 book, Toxic Sludge is Good For Your. Now Florida Power and Light, the operator of a Florida nuclear plant, "appears to have shipped radioactive waste to ordinary landfills, municipal sewage treatment plants and some unknown locations in the 1970's and early 80's," reports the New York Times. "The contaminants were then hauled away with sludge. ...

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New York Times, August 7, 2005

Changing Of The Guard At ExxonMobil

by Bob Burton — August 6, 2005 - 4:01pm

The chairman of ExxonMobil, Lee R. Raymond, has announced that he will retire at the end of the year. Kert Davies, research director at Greenpeace U.S.A. told the New York Times that "there is a spectrum of corporate behavior on global warming and Exxon is the epitome of denial and deception.

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New York Times, August 4, 2005
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