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Week of May 28, 2006

NEWS THIS WEEK Congress Fast Tracks Power Lines and Pipelines Through National Parks Environmentalists are incensed at plans for the Department of Energy and Bureau of Land Management to punch thousands of miles of new power lines and pipelines through Western federal lands--including several national parks and forests--over the next 14 months. Last week, Congress passed legislation calling for the fast track construction of energy transfer corridors as a way to quickly shore up electricity supplies across the West. Go to all articles - Go to this article Alternative to Contentious Cape Wind Project Piques Interest After years of political wrangling over a contentious plan to build large wind turbines in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast, a new proposal for a similar type of wind development in nearby Buzzard's Bay is gaining traction among politicians and environmentalists alike. The key difference is that the latter plan proposes to site its wind turbines in an already busy shipping channel traversed by more than 8,000 commercial ships each year, whereas the earlier Nantucket proposal calls for siting turbines in relatively pristine open ocean. Go to all articles - Go to this article Reporting by Roddy Scheer THIS WEEK'S COMMENTARY We Are What We Eat The Politics of Oil--and Groceries From my bedroom window I can hear the sounds of traffic streaming by on Interstate 25, carrying folk around the last corner down from the pass through the Sangre de Christo foothills at Glorieta and the Pecos River, toward Santa Fe, New Mexico. They descend the mountain toward their jobs or they come down to vacation from points north, crossing a gateway where populations and commerce of the great Midwestern plains pass into a strange and almost alien country of the southwest, where civilization appears to change in some subtle manner, just like the landscape. By Ralph Melcher Go to all articles - Go to this article IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF E GREEN LIVING Planning for a Better World Green Financial Advisors Help Point the Way While financial advisors have been around about as long as money itself, a new breed of so-called "green" practitioners is focusing on helping clients grow their personal nest eggs while contributing to the achievement of larger social and environmental goals. By Roddy Scheer Go to all articles - Go to this article CURRENTS Grass to Gas Bio-Based Ethanol is Poised to Take Off Although traditional corn-based ethanol has a loyal constituency in farm states, support for bio-ethanol, also known as cellulosic ethanol, is growing. By Heather Augustyn Go to all articles - Go to this article EARTHTALK Week of 5/28/2006 Dear EarthTalk: What’s the controversy over bison hunting in the U.S. and Canada? Dear EarthTalk: Where I live in Connecticut, our highways are "parking lots" many times a day. Isn’t this an ideal situation for public transit? Why isn’t it happening? Go to this week's EarthTalk WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT This content is brought to you as a free public service by E/The Environmental Magazine, which is published by Earth Action Network, Inc., a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. Our address is 28 Knight Street, Norwalk, CT 06851. We ask that you: Subscribe to our magazine ($20/yr. US) Order a Free Trial Issue Make a tax deductible donation Commentary Archive – News Archive