Environmental News Network

U.N. Says Thousands of Contaminated Industrial and Military Sites in Iraq Need Clean Up
Thousands of contaminated industrial and military sites left over from wars in Iraq must urgently be cleaned up to stop them from further harming people's health and the environment, a U.N. agency said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Moderate Republicans Balk at Refuge Drilling
A House Republican push to pass federal budget cuts is being stymied by opposition from moderate Republicans to a provision that would allow oil and natural gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. >> Read the Full Article
New York State To Cut Greenhouse Gases from Cars
Cars sold or registered in New York state must cut carbon dioxide emissions beginning in 2009, state officials said Wednesday, in Republican Gov. George Pataki's latest break with the Bush Administration over steps to cut greenhouse gases. >> Read the Full Article
Science Panel Says Corps of Engineers, Louisiana Lack Overall Plan for Restoring Wetlands
The Army Corps of Engineers and state of Louisiana lack an overall plan for restoring coastal wetlands, a National Academy of Sciences panel said Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Environmentalists Criticize Route of Planned Siberia-Pacific Pipeline in New Report
Environmentalists slammed the proposed route for an oil pipeline from Siberia to Russia's Pacific in a report released Tuesday, arguing that it could send 4,000 tons of crude spilling into the world's largest freshwater body in just 20 minutes if ruptured. >> Read the Full Article
U.S., Chinese Environmental Chiefs Start Regular Meetings on Cleaner Atmosphere
The world's established superpower and superpolluter is meeting with an emerging superpower and superpolluter, seeking new and greener common ground. >> Read the Full Article
Lands Could Reopen to Logging
A deal between the Bush administration and timber industry probably will restart chain saws across millions of acres of Western Oregon in the next few years, including reserves set aside for the northern spotted owl and other wildlife. >> Read the Full Article
Half China Fast-Food Containers Health Hazard, Paper Says
Half the disposable fast-food containers, bowls and spoons used in China are hazardous to health, the China Daily said, quoting the results of a nationwide investigation. >> Read the Full Article
Trash Haulers Move Mountains, Yet More To Go
That mountainous mess of Wilma debris filling your front yard and killing your grass is not going to vanish overnight. Think more like New Year's night -- perhaps later. It may be 2006 before all the trash from Wilma is gone from South Florida, waste-management officials in Miami-Dade and Broward counties say. >> Read the Full Article
Global Warming Could Help Salmon in Norway, Report Says
Global warming may benefit salmon in Norwegian rivers by causing more rainfall that dilutes industrial acids blown from other parts of Europe, scientists said on Friday. >> Read the Full Article