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Dirty Secrets
President Bush says his administration has already achieved "real and meaningful results to improve our environment." For the official version, visit www.epa.gov. There you'll find the EPA's controversial (and much-edited) "Draft Report on the Environment," the "Clear Skies" plan, and pages related to the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. For a less rosy view, read the Sierra Club's assessment of Clear Skies at www.sierraclub.org/cleanair/clear_skies.asp or visit www.savethecleanwateract.org. At the League of Conservation Voters' site (www.lev.org), you can download their damning "Presidential Report Card." Also, go to MotherJones.com to read about logging in the Tongass ("A Crossroad for Wilderness," September/October 2002) and coalbed methane extraction in Wyoming ("The New Range Wars," November/December 2002).
Down Upon the Suwannee
For more on the Suwannee River and the activists working to save it, visit www.saveoursuwannee.org. Read "Wetlands at Risk: Imperiled Treasures" at www.nvaforg/wetlands/wetlandsatrisk.html. Want to save your local wetlands? Find them by using the National Wetlands Inventory interactive maps at www.nwi.fws.gov/mapper_tool.htm. And for help getting elected officials to protect wetlands, visit Vote Environment at www.voteenvironment.org/theissues_water.html.
No Clear Skies
Port Arthur activist Hilton Kelley appeared before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; read his testimony at epw.senate.gov/107th/Kelley_071602.htm. The Bush administration says its changes to New Source Review will clean up old refineries and power plants, but Clear the Air accuses it of launching a "direct assault" on the Clean Air Act. Get both perspectives at www.epa.gov/air/nsr-review/index.html and cta.policy.net/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=24762. Learn about refinery pollution in your state at www.refineryreform.org.
The Death of Rachel Corrie
The British paper The Guardian has posted some of Corrie's final emails to her family and friends at www.guardian.co.uk/israd/Story/0,2763,916299,00.html. The International Solidarity Movement can be found at www.palsolidarity.org. Corrie's detractors are also online. Conservative columnist Dennis Prager has labeled her "a useful idiot for, and one more victim of, Palestinian terror" (www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20030325.shtml.com). The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project, envisioned by Corrie, promotes friendships between her hometown and the Gaza Strip town where she died. Visit the project at www.orscp.org.
Who's Got the Blues?
For two accounts of the history of the blues, look for Albert Murray's Stomping the Blues (Da Capo 1989) and Honeyboy Edwards' autobiography, The World Don't Owe Me Nothing (Chicago Review Press 2000). And www.yearoftheblues.org lists upcoming blues festivals and includes a photo gallery and artist profiles. Martin Scorsese's film series on the blues premieres with Feel Like Going Home, which airs September 28 on PBS (www.pbs.org/theblues.com).
End of the Road
The term "partial-birth abortion" is purposefully vague, but could be interpreted to include both dilation and evacuation (D&E) and dilation and extraction (D&X) methods. A (free!) Salon article (www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/24/late_term) parses the difference between the two and makes the point that the widely reviled D&X method is actually safer. D&X abortions are available at only 31 sites nationwide, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (www.agi-usa.org/sections/abortion.html.com). Read the bill that would ban "partial-birth" abortions by typing "H.R. 760" into a search engine such as Google. Finally, Medical Students for Choice (www.ms4c.org) tries to remedy the problem of the graying (and vanishing) of abortion providers.
Doping Kids
A University of Maryland study (pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/110/5/e53) warns of the dangers facing kids when they are prescribed drugs tested only on adults. The International Coalition for Drug Awareness (www.drugawareness.org) has an archive full of information about the adverse effects of drugs. At the Reflux in Infants and Children website (www.riic.org), concerned parents can try to determine if their babies suffer from reflux and get recommendations for treatments, including prescription drugs. But read our article first!
Life in Limbostan
Links to recent Human Rights Watch reports on the legal status and abuse of migrants in Spain can be found at www.hrw.org/europe/spain.php. The website www.December18.net posts news on international migration and the campaign to ratify the U.N. Convention on Rights of Migrants.
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