by Anna Bisaro | Apr 9, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Inhabitants of Israel’s Kidron Valley, a land once walked by Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad, now describe the area as a sewer. The Kidron Valley, or Wadi Nar in Arabic, an area of about 17 miles, stretches from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea and holds great...
by Anna Bisaro | Apr 9, 2014 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON – The tight $7.89 billion budget proposed for the Environmental Protection Agency has left some Democratic senators dissatisfied. “I want to express my disappointment, frankly,” Chairman Jack Reed said in an appropriations hearing Wednesday. “We work...
by Anna Bisaro | Apr 3, 2014 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON – The National Park Service is already planning celebrations for its 100-year anniversary in two years. But the anniversary bashes are threatened by the possibility of another summer of wildfires in the national parks that could burn up the money needed for...
by Mattie Quinn | Nov 15, 2013 | Environment
Climate change that is melting ice caps means more trade routes through the Arctic and could result in an economic boom for the Arctic countries, according to Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Borge Brende. “The Arctic Ocean is projected to be virtually ice-free...
by Elena Schneider | Nov 6, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Texas Comptroller Susan Combs on Tuesday defended a controversial program her office oversees to conserve the state’s threatened dunes sagebrush lizard. The program is intended to protect the land where the lizards live by paying landowners to...
by Elena Schneider | Oct 30, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON — As proponents and opponents continue to await a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline project, U.S. House energy committee members on Tuesday touted legislation that would streamline the cross-border pipeline permitting process. But the Federal...
