Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Good news: today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. The review will take about a year...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Years ago, when I first moved to the Midwest (Columbus, Ohio, to be more precise) from California one of the first things I noticed was the corn. Not corn fields, mind you, although there were plenty of those, but corn...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
The last few months have been heady ones for wolf advocates. First, a federal judge in Montana issued a preliminary injunction restoring the gray wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains to the endangered species list; a move which...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated "critical habitat" for what I think is one of the most beautiful insects in America--the Hines Emerald Dragonfly. Huge, emerald green with yellow stripes, and (as are all dragonflies) graceful, the Hines...continued→
