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Bush administration assault on forest
• Bush team battered by courts on environment (5/19/08) • Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing (4/29/08) • Bush floating new climate proposal (4/14/08) • Bush intervention led EPA to scale back ozone limits (3/14/08) • Waxman demands EPA documents (3/11/08) • Judge: Ag secretary avoids jail time (2/28/08) • Agency accused of failing to protect coho (2/26/08) • Agriculture chief's priority: avoid jail (2/23/08) • Bush wants to beef up Earth monitoring (2/4/08) • Lawmakers complain Bush's budget cuts fire prevention money (2/4/08) • Group cites oil leases in U.S. delay in rating polar bear's status (1/8/08) Forest Service
• U.S. Forest Service plans California hiring round in July (5/14/08) • Feinstein criticizes Forest Service firefighting vacancies report (4/10/08) • Government abandons appeal of forest management ruling (1/8/08)
Global Warming
California
•Air Quality Board to fine Bay Area polluters (5/22/08) •Senate panel votes to overturn EPA on Calif. waiver (5/21/08) •Bush fuel economy rules swipe at California (4/23/08) • Bush fuel economy rules swipe at California (4/23/08) • Climate change may alter bay growth patterns (4/18/08) • Global warming hitting hardest in the West (4/6/08) • California joins lawsuit against EPA (4/2/08) • Warming felt more in western U.S. (3/28/08) • Warming affects trees, streams in the West (3/27/08) • Air board to revisit rules on zero-emissions (3/26/08) • Study: Warming may threaten Lake Tahoe (3/25/08) • State scrambles to fund global warming fight (3/4/08) • EPA'sown study argues for California waiver (3/3/08) • Memo warned: EPA chief's credibility at risk (2/27/08) • Pollution politics (2/27/08) • PG&E invests to restore forests, offset carbon emissions (2/26/08) • Internal transcripts show EPA chief Johnson faced dilemma (2/26/08) • Humboldt forest lands first carbon offset deal under new regs (2/11/08) • No targets reached at climate conference (2/1/08) • Water managers told: Plan now for crisis (2/1/08) • Senate bill requires textbooks to teach global warming (1/31/08) • Study: Much of West's climate-related water trends human-caused (1/31/08) • Salmon arrive in record low numbers (1/30/08) • Address climate change through land use (1/29/08) • State joins petition to cut non-road emissions (1/29/08) • EPA chief sits and takes his punishment (1/25/08) • Behind EPA's rejection of state rules on emissions (1/25/08) • Salmon facing peril of climate change (1/20/08) • EPA won't give details on denying emissions waiver (1/19/08) • Global warming goes to court (1/4/08) U.S.
• Climate change - wait 'til next year? (6/12/08) • Senate defeat puts climate bill on tough road (6/7/08) • Partisan battle stalls climate bill in Senate (6/5/08) • U.S. battles over biofuels at food summit (6/5/08) • GOP tries to scuttle climate-change bill (6/4/08) • Heated arguments begin over climate change (6/3/08) • Senate taking up key climate-change bill (6/2/08) • Hurricane spike not due to global warming, report says (5/19/08) • U.S. to list polar bears as threatened species (5/14/08) • Judge orders EPA to hurry on carbon monoxide (5/8/08) • Warming may be greatest threat to tropical species (5/5/08) • White House blocked EPA studies, GAO reports (4/30/08) • Using chemicals to fight global warming may damage ozone layer (4/24/08) • Greenhouse gases growing faster than ever, report says (4/24/08) • Coal's comeback raises alarms (4/24/08) • Pine beetle outbreaks turn forests into carbon source (4/24/08) • EPA scientists complain about political pressure (4/23/08) • Bush's slow thaw (4/18/08) • 18 states commit to take action on climate change (4/18/08) • Bush calls for reduction in emissions (4/17/08) • Govs to gather to address global warming (4/14/08) • EPA advisers slam new smog rule (4/11/08) • Climate change brings health risks (4/10/08) • Hunters worry about global warming (4/10/08) • Gore looking to turn idle fans into activists (4/1/08) • Spring is getting ahead of itself (3/20/08) • Southern Baptists call for climate care (3/9/08) • Skeptics of global warming meet in New York (3/5/08) • EPA unions quit management cooperation pact (3/4/08) • Governors try to advance clean energy (2/22/08) • Cities step up tree planting (2/20/08) • Better biofuels before more biofuels (2/13/08) • The Senate's changing climate (2/18/08) • Ethanol from corn may worsen warming (2/8/08) • Texas is biggest carbon polluter (1/16/08) • To beat climate change, breaking the mold isn't enough (1/13/08) International
• Brazil activists fear death squads back (5/13/08) • Asian Development Bank: Biofuels make food expensive (4/20/08) • WHO: Climate change threatens millions (4/7/08) • Indigenous groups seek role in shaping climate policy (4/7/08) • Climate talks open with rancor (4/1/08) • Despite hot air, climate goals on ice (3/30/08) • Western Antarctic ice chunk collapses (3/25/08) • Arctic ice thinning, glacier melting accelerates (3/19/08) • Power plant CO2 increases by 3 percent (3/18/08) • Letting nature clear the air (3/17/08) • EU tells U.S., China to cut emissions (3/15/08) • Brazil hosts climate change forum (2/20/08) • Scientists blame ocean dead zones on climate change (2/20/08) • UN gathering to address climate change (2/11/08) • Warmer Atlantic worsens hurricanes (1/30/08) • Brazil to crack down on deforestation (1/24/08) • UN warns of biofuel's environmental risk (1/23/08) • Sweden to study belching cows (1/22/08) California forest news • Mt. Baldy wildfire sluggish as weather holds (5/14/08) • Fire burning in Angeles National Forest (5/13/08) • California developer to preserve 240,000 acres of wilderness (5/8/08) • California braces for wildfire season (5/4/08) • San Jacinto wilderness wildfire still at 700 acres (5/1/08) • Gap founders negotiating with Pacific Lumber (4/30/08) • Experts determine where Sudden Oak Death began (4/17/08) • Southern California braces for worst fire season yet (4/18/08) • Muir Woods celebrates a century of conservation (4/7/08) • A win for redwoods (4/7/08) • Off-roaders lose 1,000 miles of trail in new Eldorado plan (4/2/08) • Clearcutting the history of forest destruction (3/31/08) • Bohemian Club tries new tactic to log grove (3/28/08) • It's true: Wolverine thriving near Tahoe (3/24/08) • If wolverines are extinct in state, then what was that? (3/7/08) • Getting clear with Sierra Pacific Industries (2/29/08) • Bringing forests up to date (2/29/08) • California sues over Forest Service plan (2/29/08) • Getting clear with Sierra Pacific Industries (2/29/08) • Purchase of a vast watershed protects pristine river (2/24/08) • UC Berkeley dismantles parts of protesting tree-sitters' camp (2/19/08) • Redwood wrangle: it may be a new day for logging (2/10/08) • Forest Service studying loss of U.S. firefighters to Calif. force (2/12/08) • Group files to list Pacific fisher as endangered (1/24/08) • Muir Woods named to National Register of Historical Places (1/10/08)
General forest news • Beetle-infested forests prompt campground closures in Rockies (5/4/08) • Enviros and hook-n-bullet set form unlikely alliance (4/30/08) • N.M. crews fighting wildfire face 2nd day of windy weather (4/21/08) • Watching wolves, moose--and heat--on Michigan island (4/19/08) • Groups plot trails animals use to link wilderness, park areas (3/21/08) • Visitors encouraged to protect the forests (2/29/08) • Helping urban trees to thrive (2/29/08) • Threat to rainforest isn't easing (2/29/08) • What you can do to save the forests (2/29/08) • Tracking down lumber thieves (2/29/08) • Home improvement (2/29/08) • New hope for Madagascar's fading forests (2/24/08) • China's snow storms destroy forests (2/18/08) • 'Videophilia' cutting into outdoor activity (2/10/08) • Who stole my trees? Kentucky fights back (2/18/08) • Haiti's efforts to save trees falters (2/18/08) • Habitat for Mexican spotted owl to stand (2/8/08) • Weyerhauser swings to loss on housing (2/08/08) • Judge says Northwest's marbled murrelet deserves continued protection (2/5/08) • World launches talks on forests payoff (2/4/08) • Destruction of world's forests speeding up (2/3/08) • U.S. plan OKs logging in Alaska national forest (1/26/08) • NJ beach town scraps rainforest deal (1/17/08) • World Bank pledges to help save trees, then helps cut down Amazon rainforests (1/17/08) • Garden clubs group tackles reforestation (1/15/08) • Idaho roadless plan draws praise, criticism (1/14/08)
Pacific Lumber logging
• Reserving the redwoods (5/2/08) • Which plan for the future of Pacific Lumber Co.? Redwoods at risk (4/3/08) • Which plan for the future of Pacific Lumber Co.? Conservation, jobs and the environment (4/3/08) • Nature Conservancy proposes plan to save troubled Pacific Lumber (1/16/08)
California environmental news
• Governor declares drought in California (6/5/08) • Salmon resurgence in Butte County (5/26/08) • Californians urged to conserve water amid drought worries (5/2/08) • All salmon fishing banned on West Coast (5/2/08) • Montara Mountain sale to Feds stalls—no money (4/9/08) • Salmon will collapse unless we reverse underlying causes of decline (3/28/08) • California desert left out of federal plan (3/23/08) • Conservationists present plan to protect SoCal wildlife pathways (3/19/08) • 1-Year ban on chinook salmon fishing proposed (3/15/08) • California: Parks less than pristine (2/28/08) • Parks we'll miss if the budget cuts go through (1/17/08) • Nine state parks in Bay Area picked for closure (1/10/08) • Park pain: Nature lovers fear losing treasured spots to budget cuts (1/12/08)
General environmental news
• Dan Kammen: Clean energy and America's future (5/18/08) • Biofuels try to lighten carbon footprint (5/4/08) • Scientists advise halt to biofuels (5/1/08) • Wildlife group calls for end of Mexican wolf removal policy (4/30/08) • Earth Day activities: The sharing of the green (4/20/08) • The Goldman awards (4/15/08) • Senate OKs massive public lands bill (4/11/08) • Wolves to be removed from species list (2/21/08) • Nature overrun (1/8/08)
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