Global Warning.
Byline: Chidanand Rajghatta It's a measure of the unbridled irreverence of late-night comedy in the US that jokemeister David Letterman cracked this one some weeks back on a subject as serious as climate change: "Experts say this global warming is serious," he said, "and they are predicting...

The moral work of Stewart L. Udall to extend ethics to encompass ecological thinking.
Abstract The life and particularly cabinet service of Stewart L. Udall demonstrates the importance of depth of belief, persistence and a long-term perspective. He has served as a moral exemplar for successor interior secretaries including Rogers C. B. Morton, Cecil Andrus and Bruce Babbitt as well as...

Murray River mistakes repeated in the northern territory.
At the same time as southern Australia struggles to rescue the Murray and other rivers by clawing back over-allocated water resources for environmental flows, the NT Government is set to implement a scheme that will see all the mistakes made with the Murray repeated in the Daly Basin. ...

Beyond SWANCC: the new federalism and Clean Water Act jurisdiction.
I. INTRODUCTION II. CWA BASICS A. Statutory Elements of CWA Jurisdiction B. Compliance with the CWA: Two Permit Programs III. SWANCC, FEDERALISM AND CWA JURISDICTION A. Constitutional Federalism B. Statutory Federalism 1. Cooperative Federalism and State Participation 2. Navigable Waters and Increased Federal Involvement in Water Quality Regulation C....

Case summaries.
I. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY A. Clean Air Act 1. Alaska, Department of Environmental Conservation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, 298 F.3d 814 (9th Cir. 2002), cert. granted, 123 S. Ct. 1253 (2003). Notwithstanding a prior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order of noncompliance, the...

New herbicide fluoroglycofen passing appraisal. (New Products).
New herbicide 10% fluoroglycofen developed by Shuangshou Pesticide Co. of Qingdao Soda Co., Ltd. has completed pilot test and passed appraisal. Tests made by Shandong Pesticide Inspection Institute show that the product has good quality and reliable pollution control. Through 2 years' farmland application and...

Environmental Health Issues in Rural Communities.
* A national survey of rural health care providers (RHCPs) was undertaken to identify their perceptions of the environmental health issues facing their constituents. * Groundwater pollution and surface-water pollution ranked as the top two concerns, followed by pesticide misuse and soil erosion. * Groundwater...

Environmental impact: a preliminary citation analysis of local faculty in a new academic program in environmental and human health applied to collection development in an academic library.
Abstract: New academic programs in environmental science prompted a citation analysis of local faculty by the Texas Tech University Library (TTU). The purpose of this study is to characterize the citation patterns of the interdisciplinary field of environmental and human health as compared with other disciplines and to apply...

Chlorpyrifos still enjoys broad prospects.
Chlorpyrifos, recommended by the National Development and Reform Commission as one of the organic phosphorus varieties with high potency, minimal toxicity and few residues, has been gradually accepted by most domestic pesticide technical producers and the marketing/promoting organizations of agriculture. Chlorpyrifos, a kind of broad-spectrum pesticide, which...

Organic food: worth the price?
"If you eat food, you eat pesticides." You can't state it more simply than the Environmental Working Group does. The Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group is only one link in a chain stretching back to Rachel Carson's groundbreaking 1962 expose Silent Spring, which alerted the nation to the...