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Weyerhaeuser Sets Record Profit for Quarter
October 23, 2004 12:00 AM - Drew Desilver, The Seattle Times
Maybe money really does grow on trees. At least, it's seemed that way for Weyerhaeuser this year.
Weyerhaeuser Reports Sevenfold Increase in Third-Quarter Haul vs. Last Year
October 23, 2004 12:00 AM - Marcelene Edwards, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
Weyerhaeuser Co. made seven times more money last quarter than it did a year ago.
Southern California Called Vulnerable to Rolling Blackouts
October 23, 2004 12:00 AM - John Woolfolk, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.
Limited high-voltage line capacity and the mothballing of old power plants could leave Southern California on the brink of rolling blackouts in the next couple of years, according to a state report released Friday.
Atwater, Calif.-Area Dairy Introduces System to Help with Waste Problem
October 23, 2004 12:00 AM - Tim Moran, The Modesto Bee, Calif.
The Joseph Gallo Farms Cottonwood Dairy near Atwater has 5,000 cows, and each one of them produces about 120 pounds of liquid and solid waste per day.
BP and Shell Enjoy High Oil Prices by Earning $100 Million Daily Profit
October 23, 2004 12:00 AM - Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail, London
BP and Shell are set to report stunning profits of $9 billion (5 billion pounds) between them for the three months to September — $100 million a day — as they cash in on the soaring oil price.
Typhoon Kills 62 in Japan, Deadliest in 20 Years
October 22, 2004 12:00 AM - Masayuki Kitano, Reuters
Japan's deadliest typhoon in more than two decades killed at least 62 people, media said on Thursday, as rescuers searched frantically for 27 still missing in floods and landslides.
Local Initiatives Target Genetic Engineering in a Grassroots Battle over Biotech Farming
October 22, 2004 12:00 AM - Robert Mullins, Newsdesk.org
When voters in the Northern California county of Mendocino passed an initiative this spring banning the cultivation of genetically engineered crops, there were celebrations 3,000 miles away in Vermont.
U.S. Consumers Get Cold Feet as Energy Costs Soar
October 22, 2004 12:00 AM - Andrea Hopkins, Reuters
The surging cost of fuel oil and gasoline have set the stage for a cold, expensive winter in the United States and sparked concerns that consumers will cut spending, a move economists worry will hamper growth.
Lawsuit Accuses Feds of Mismanaging Conservation Program
October 22, 2004 12:00 AM - Elizabeth M. Gillespie, Associated Press
The National Wildlife Federation has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that duck, pheasant, and other ground-nesting bird populations are being harmed by mismanagement of a government program that pays farmers to set aside croplands.
Tentative Alaska Land Swap Raises Drilling Fears
October 22, 2004 12:00 AM - Yereth Rosen, Reuters
U.S. officials announced a tentative land swap this week that they say would enlarge an Alaska wildlife refuge but that critics charge would open up the area to oil and gas development.