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Posted inJuly 6, 1987: Downwinders: America's nuclear sacrificial lambs

Arizona surrenders a dam to save CAP

by Florence Williams

Arizona’s congressional delegation has agreed to abandon plans for the $316 million Cliff Dam, contested by environmental groups, in exchange for those groups promising not to interfere with completion of the Central Arizona Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inJuly 6, 1987: Downwinders: America's nuclear sacrificial lambs

Downwinders: America’s nuclear sacrificial lambs

by Joseph Bauman

The federal government’s nuclear experiments at the Nevada Test Site have left a wake of illness and anguish cloaked in cover-up, and the victims — the “downwinders” — continue to fight for compensation to help them cope. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download […]

Posted inJune 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss

The Forest Service kowtows while forests burn

by Ed Marston

Our belief is that America will recover itself by the end of this decade, and stop the destruction of the forests. To do that, it will have to destroy the once-proud U.S. Forest Service. That will be easy, for the agency has deeply wounded itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inMay 25, 1987: Groundwater pollution: A silent, insidious invasion

The EPA is hunting those who kill by degrees

by David Wann

There are a thousand and one ways to get rid of a drum of hazardous waste, but only a handful of them are legal. Despite shelves of hazardous waste laws and regulations with their well-defined civil and criminal penalties, environmental crime is  increasing roughly in proportion to the country’s escalating chemical production. Download entire issue […]

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