Through historical and eyewitness accounts, scientific analysis and amazing photos, Rob Carson’s Mount St. Helens: the Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano, takes us back to the blast of 20 years ago: “By the evening of May 18, Mount St. Helens was a smoking crater, hollowed-out and grey. It looked defiled, like the victim of […]
Kayley Mendenhall
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Hispanics have a new voice
A new publication in the Four Corners region, El Valle, combines Spanish and English to focus on Hispanic people. “We have a real strong Hispanic community in the Four Corners area and we’re growing,” says publisher and editor LaVerta Valdez-Johnson. “Not many hear about us because our events are not covered in local newspapers.” She […]
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Nuclear waste needs new backyard
CALIFORNIA After more than a decade of legal challenges and nonviolent protests against a proposed nuclear-waste dump, the Save Ward Valley Coalition is closing its office. Members have gladly worked themselves out of a job. “We’ve made tremendous steps toward victory,” says Bradley Angel of Greenaction, one of the environmental groups in the coalition. US […]
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Mining tops toxic list
NATION For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual inventory of industrial toxic releases included hardrock mining and six other industries – and the newcomers stole the show. With the addition of these industries to the Toxics Release Inventory (HCN, 9/16/96), reported toxic releases in the United States nearly tripled, increasing from 2.6 to […]