Monthly News Archive:
July 2006
Table of Contents:
- Summer Break
- Pearl Jam thinks globally, but also gives locally
- Columbia River toxins moving up food chain
- Property measure likely on ballot
- Judge bars shrill Navy sonar
Summer Break
We'll be taking a few weeks off from publishing our daily news because our esteemed editing staff will be busy planning our annual community volunteer event, Day in the Park, scheduled for Saturday, July 29. Daily updates will return in earnest on Monday, August 14.
To learn more or to sign-up for Earth Share's Day in the Park 2006, please visit www.dayinthepark.org
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July 12, 2006 | 
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Pearl Jam thinks globally, but also gives locally
Pearl Jam, the Seattle-based band that in 2004 sang disapprovingly about flattening out rolling hills as "evolution, baby," put its money where its mouth is Monday by giving a total of $100,000 to nine organizations dedicated to improving the environment -- many based in the Northwest.
The donations, officially called the Carbon Portfolio Strategy, are a way for the Seattle-based band to undo the damage caused by day-to-day operations of their ongoing '06 tour, said guitarist Stone Gossard while backstage at a concert in Los Angeles.
The vehicles used to transport the band a...Read the full story
Columbia River toxins moving up food chain
VANCOUVER, Wash. — First were the crayfish near Bonneville Dam, so loaded with toxins that scientists wondered how they could still be alive.
Then researchers learned Columbia River fish were contaminated enough that nearby tribes face dramatically higher risks of disease. Scientists since have found deformed sturgeon, uranium building up in clams near the Hanford nuclear reservation, and water in parts of the last stretch of the river as contaminated as Seattle's Duwamish River, a federal Superfund site.
Over the past five years, virtually unnotice...Read the full story
Property measure likely on ballot
Proponents deliver tractor load of voter signatures
Property rights advocates turned in what appear to be more than enough signatures to place an initiative on November's ballot that opponents contend would gut the state's environmental protections and lead to chaos.
Initiative 933 would compel governments to either pay people who have been financially hamstrung by land use or environmental regulations -- which is unlikely to happen -- or allow them to use or build on the property as they wish.
"It's about restoring balance between the need of govern...Read the full story
Judge bars shrill Navy sonar
Temporary order issued in suit seeking to protect whales, porpoises
The Navy is forbidden to use an intense form of sonar -- known to have spooked Puget Sound orcas in the past -- during combat exercises this month in the Pacific, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Environmentalists suing to halt the sonar use offered "considerable convincing scientific evidence" that the exercise would harm or even kill whales, porpoises and other marine creatures, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled in Los Angeles in granting a temporary re...Read the full story
