WARD VALLEY, Calif. – Through the chill of winter and 120-degree heat in the summer, activists have camped for the past 16 months among the lizards, cacti and creosote of the Mojave Desert. Their mission: To stop California from building a low-level nuclear dump in this long, desolate valley. At times, this protest on a […]
James Bruggers
Posted inFebruary 3, 1997: Bringing back the bighorn
Utah takes waste that Arizona rejected
Chalk one up for the little guy. After four months of pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency and garbage giant Waste Management Inc., environmentalists in Arizona and California have scored a major victory. Trainloads of DDT-contaminated mud from a San Francisco Bay Superfund site are no longer headed to Waste Management’s landfill in Mobile, Ariz., a […]
Posted inSeptember 30, 1996: Can this man break the right's grip on Idaho?
Redwood summer roars back
Musician Bonnie Raitt wasn’t singing the blues in California Sept. 15 when she was arrested with 896 others for acts of civil disobedience – trespassing onto Pacific Lumber Co. property and chaining themselves to mill gates. Their mission was saving the Headwaters grove, the world’s largest ancient redwood forest in private ownership. An estimated 4,000 […]