(May 11, 2009, The California Progress Report)
The San Joaquin Valley has been ground zero in the current economic recession. News outlets have run a number of stories about food banks running out of supplies and residents leaving their hometowns in search of work on the East Coast.
Water contractors have claimed that recent environmental regulations [...]
(Feb. 11, 2009, Associated Press)
It’s been called a modern-day gold rush. But the free-for-all isn’t for sparkling bits in a stream, it’s for the water – deep underground and salty – that developers and politicians hope will help keep New Mexico’s metro areas growing.
In Albuquerque and Santa Fe, developers and local governments have staked claims [...]
(Jan. 16, 2009, Enviroblog)
Economic losses caused by nutrient pollution of U.S. freshwaters are felt by people all around the country, according to the policy analysis by the Kansas State University team of scientists led by Walter Dodds.
Repeated application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers, intensive tillage of soil, discharge of manure from animal farms, and [...]
