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Activists say public isn't only culprit — leaders and companies are also culpable MEXICO CITY — Mexicans have become world-class litterbugs. Soft drink bottles, snack wrappers, used diapers and cigarette butts clog city streets, rural highways and scenic beaches. Mountains of garbage stand sentry-like in empty lots and at the edges of bucolic rural villages. Discarded plastic bags hang in trees and dangle from cactus like bitter industrial fruit. Not every Mexican litters, of course. And perhaps no one does so all the time. But enough of them do, enough of the time, that this nation of 105 million people...

“Hope is not a strategy,” stated Jim Paxon at the recent Forest Health conference Governor Janet Napolitano held in Prescott, Arizona. Everyone across the West has been relying on this strategy of hope along with praying for rain. Unfortunately, progress in addressing forest health issues is proceeding in a tortuous manner. More funds are spent on studies, plans, meetings and court cases than on actual forest restoration. Sandy Bahr representing the Sierra Club has been present at the Arizona State Capital this week to register her vote of opposition to a bill sponsored by Representative Cheryl Chase, (D) Kearney and...

      IN JULY 1992, the Canadian Government closed the Grand Banks, waters off of Newfoundland, and most of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to groundfishing. By the time this moratorium came into effect populations of goundfish, like sole, mackerel, and cod -- fish that live in the Ocean's bottom layer -- had already suffered a catastrophic decline. Most observers pointed to overfishing and damage to habitat by commercial dragnets, as the primary culprits. But by the end of the moratorium, in 1994, it had become clear that the collapse was more serious than at first thought, and that the declines in...

URGENT! CALLS NEEDED TO PROTECT THE SAN PEDRO RIVER UPDATE, August 11, 2003 Conferees deferring to “undecided” McCain! Call Today! The fate of the Renzi/San Pedro Killing Rider is now in the combined House/Senate Armed Service Committee Conference. The Rider is on the House version of the FY04 National Defense Authorization Bill. It is not on the Senate version. House Republican Armed Service Committee members are still proving incorrigible. The Senate members are deferring to Senator John McCain. Senator McCain remains “undecided” and is currently considering support for a nearly equally bad revision of the Rider requested by the...