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Just What a Border Line Needs: A Borderline Fence Border-fence design exacerbated flooding along U.S.-Mexico border		25 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:33 AM on 25 Aug 2008 The hastily built new fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently exacerbated flooding in parts of Arizona and Mexico due to poor fence design. Environmentalists and others had warned the Department of Homeland Security that rushing border-fence construction could cause eco-troubles, but Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff nonetheless wa ...
Topics: dumbassery , Mexico, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Corn Patches and Dispatches Notes on a recent trip to Mexico	Tom Philpott	22 Aug 2008	Victual Reality
In Mexico, a milpa is a garden patch, usually kept by several families, to grow a substantial portion of a year's sustenance. Milpas are typically dominated by corn -- first domesticated in present-day Mexico thousands of years ago -- but also contain stunning agricultural and nutritional diversity. In addition to corn for tortillas, traditional milpas grow squash and beans of many varieties, avocados, m ...
Topics: agriculture, food, Mexico, Victual Reality (all these topics)

The Wall's in Your Court Enviros' border-fence appeal turned down by Supreme Court		23 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 23 Jun 2008 Homeland Security officials can continue to waive environmental laws to speed construction of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club. The groups had argued that the eco-law-waiving power given to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff in 2005 was unconstitutional. The fence section n ...
Topics: Arizona, Department of Homeland Security, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Nothing to Sniff At Mexico City residents losing sense of smell, says research		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:56 PM on 04 Jun 2008 The air pollution in Mexico City is so bad that it could be harming residents' sense of smell, researchers say. People who live in the city, which exceeds the World Health Organization's ozone standards 300 days out of the year, did a worse job identifying common scents like coffee and orange juice than residents of a neighboring rural area. They also took longer to detect the smell o ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Mexico, news (all these topics)

What would Edward Abbey do? Bush administration ignoring environmental laws, building border wall anyway	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Ocelot. Photo: Andrew Nicholson Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday that he will use authority Congress gave him to waive all environmental laws that will impede construction of 670 miles of border wall between the United States and Mexico. The wall threatens the rare wildlife of the Southwest like ocelots, jaguars, jaguarundis, and others with extinction because it will prevent animals from reaching breeding populations in Me ...
Topics: animal welfare, extinction, international politics, jackassery, Mexico, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

A Tall Border Eco-laws pushed aside for faster building of border fence		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:14 PM on 01 Apr 2008 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it will waive environmental laws in order to finish its 670-mile-long fence along the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of 2008. The waivers will apply to land stretching from California to Texas and will facilitate construction of fencing, towers, sensors, cameras, and roads. Homeland Security has already issued waivers for three p ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Mexico, national security, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Of legal eagles and ocelots Enviros file supreme suit to stop border wall	Glenn Hurowitz	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging elements of the REAL ID act, which gives Secretary of Homeland Security the power to waive any environmental laws that would get in the way of the 700-mile-long double-layered concrete wall Congress authorized for the U.S.-Mexico border. From the press release announcing the lawsuit: By granting one government official the absolute power to pick and choose which ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

GMO, Oh, Mexico ... Mexico to allow planting of genetically modified crops		20 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 11:58 AM on 20 Mar 2008 Mexico has taken the last step toward finalizing rules that will allow genetically modified crops to be planted in the country. That has many farmers in the so-called birthplace of corn worried that GM varieties could contaminate their fields. Under the rules, GM corn wouldn't technically be allowed in certain areas of Mexico considered "centers of origin" for unique corn plant ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs, Mexico, news (all these topics)

Ride, Sally, Ride Mexico City encourages transit ridership with women-only buses		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 25 Jan 2008 Women in Mexico City have long been deterred from riding public transportation by the very real possibility of being groped or verbally harassed while packed in with other passengers. "A woman could enter a metro car a virgin and come out pregnant," says one female rider. The subway system has female-only cars during rush hour to address the problem, but now city officials ...
Topics: Mexico, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Hundreds of Mexican police raided illegal sawmills near a monarch butterfly reserve yesterday in "the largest seizure of illegally logged wood in the country's history," according to the attorney general's office. Millions of butterflies travel some 2,500 miles each winter to spend the cold season in the Mexican forest, where illegal logging is r ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

Winging It Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Millions of butterflies clapped their tiny wings as Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday announced a plan to curb logging and protect habitat for migrating monarchs. Mexico has already boosted anti-logging efforts, resulting in a 48 percent drop in illegal tree-chopping in the last year. Calderon hopes the additional funding to be put toward the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve will boo ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Big balls, bigger wall Chertoff lies, wildlife dies	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday that he's going to just waive the Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Waste Disposal Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (among many others) in order to plough ahead with building a wall along the Arizona-Mexico border in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. He repeated his rationale that the wall could be good for the environment because migrants ...
Topics: national security, endangered species, jackassery, politics, international politics, wilderness, legislation, Texas, Mexico (all these topics)

Waive Goodbye Chertoff waives environmental laws to continue border-fence construction		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:26 AM on 23 Oct 2007 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived several environmental laws on Monday in order to continue construction of nearly seven miles of the sprawling fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Work on the section that crosses the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz., had been halted due to a ruling two weeks ago that the administration had spent ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Mexico, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

South Texas: The new environmental heartland? The green movement of the Rio Grande	Glenn Hurowitz	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday, Grist published my investigation of why the environmental movement has been relatively slow and cautious in fighting the U.S.-Mexico border wall, one of the greatest manmade disasters to ever strike the Western landscape and Western wildlife. Of course, these articles have to be readable, so I wasn't able to delve into all the details of the politics of the border wall. But I wanted to share with Gristmill readers the part of the investigation that didn't m ...
Topics: international politics, Mexico, national security, politics, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Prairie Chicken Why environmental groups have been slow to fight the border wall	Glenn Hurowitz	16 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
The border fence under construction in Arizona. Photo: Defenders of Wildlife The bobcat turned, looked at me, and jumped into the mesquite brush. It was the first day of a three-day visit to South Texas, and I was exploring the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge along the Rio Grande River. Seeing the bobcat was a treat for me -- but the kind of treat that could become increasingly rare ...
Topics: environmental movement, Mexico, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Report Barred Judge delays work on border fence per insufficient environmental report		11 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:40 PM on 11 Oct 2007 The Bush administration tried to "ram" through an insufficient environmental report and must temporarily cease work on a 1.5-mile-long section of fence on the Arizona-Mexico border, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle agreed with the Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club that federal agencies' three-week-long environmental assessment seemed ...
Topics: Arizona, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Oil, Oil, Oil and Trouble Six explosions rock oil and gas pipelines in Mexico		11 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:06 AM on 11 Sep 2007 In what appears to have been a string of politically motivated attacks, explosions rocked at least six oil and natural-gas pipelines in Mexico's state of Veracruz on Monday. The pipelines that were hit are all owned by Mexico's petro-monopoly Pemex and occurred at opposite ends of Veracruz state. Some 15,000 people were evacuated from various towns and cities near the explosions afterw ...
Topics: Mexico, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Fencing Match Mexico may file complaint over U.S. border fence plans		01 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Fencing Match Mexico may file complaint over U.S. border fence plans Mexican environmental officials are the latest to get peeved over the U.S. government's plan to build a 700-mile fence along the countries' shared border. The barrier, intended to stem illegal immigration, would "place at risk the various ecosystems that we share," says Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira -- incl ...
Topics: Argentina, Mexico, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Viva Zap Canada, U.S., Mexico sign five-year energy pact		24 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Viva Zap Canada, U.S., Mexico sign five-year energy pact Will an energy pact between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico pave the way for alternative fuels or grease the skids for business as usual? Maybe a little of both. The five-year agreement, signed yesterday by Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, and Mexican Secretary of Ener ...
Topics: Canada, climate, energy, international treaties, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics)

Not to Mention It's Wildly Inhumane Critics say U.S.-Mexico border fence could threaten wildlife, cause flooding		25 May 2007	Daily Grist
Not to Mention It's Wildly Inhumane Critics say U.S.-Mexico border fence could threaten wildlife, cause flooding The U.S. government is moving forward with plans to build 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border, but opposition is swelling faster than the Rio Grande after a rainstorm. This week, the International Boundary and Water Commission said the fence could not only cause flooding but could, in effec ...
Topics: insanity, Mexico, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Maybe They Should Just Call It LNG Beach Natural-gas terminals canceled, pursued, and potentially dangerous		15 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Maybe They Should Just Call It LNG Beach Natural-gas terminals canceled, pursued, and potentially dangerous In a great victory for greens (we love saying that!), Chevron Corp. has announced that it will not build a $650 million liquefied-natural-gas terminal off of Mexico's Coronado Islands, rewarding years of protests about the risks to marine life. But farther north, the seas aren't so smooth. Even though ...
Topics: California, energy, Mexico, natural gas, news (all these topics)

Bad Wrap How Archer Daniels Midland cashes in on Mexico's tortilla woes	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2007	Victual Reality
Much has been made in the U.S. press about Mexico's "tortilla crisis" -- the recent spike in the price of its definitive corn-based flatbread. Media reports tend to focus blame on U.S. ethanol production, which has surged over the past year, causing the global price of corn to double. The situation stoked the food vs. fuel debate, showing that even marginally offsetting gasoline with ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, Mexico, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Marlin Banned-O Fisherfolk angle to keep marlin off of menus		08 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Marlin Banned-O Fisherfolk angle to keep marlin off of menus Hoping to smack down commercial fishing operations that are decimating Pacific marlin populations, sports anglers have launched a "No Marlin on the Menu!" campaign to discourage diners from ordering the popular game fish. To preserve marlin populations, many sportsfolk keep just one fish per day, per boat, but commercial fisherfolk have not been so scrupulous. ...
Topics: marine life, Mexico, news (all these topics)

That Doesn't Even Make Fence Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws		17 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
That Doesn't Even Make Fence Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws It's hard to think of a worse idea than building a 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, but here's a shot: building a border fence without abiding by the Endangered Species Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or National Environmental Policy Act. Yet on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael ...
Topics: Mexico, news, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

A Spoonful of Sugal Cheri Sugal, defender of a Mexican rainforest, InterActivates		16 Oct 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Mexico, rainforests (all these topics)

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