02/15/2008 Truthout Environmental Coverage

Valentine's Pledge From Jewelry Sellers
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021408EA.shtml
Haider Rizvi, One World.net: "Some of the nation's top jewelers declared Tuesday they were ready to dump gold miners who abuse indigenous communities and their environment."

US Misses Second Deadline to Protect Polar Bears
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021408EB.shtml
Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, says "The United States has missed its own postponed deadline to decide if polar bears need protection from climate change, and critics link the delay to an oil lease sale in a vast swath of the bear's icy habitat."

The New York Times | The Power to Say No
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021408EC.shtml
The New York Times editorial board writes, "In recent weeks, the federal Forest Service awarded a British company the right to explore for uranium on 39 separate sites on national forest land just outside Grand Canyon National Park, less than three miles from a popular lookout over the canyon's southern rim."