December 2005 Environment & Climate News

Page 1 of the December 2005 issue of Environment & Climate News highlights the ongoing Congressional debate over resource recovery in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the November 8 defeat of a Sonoma County, California proposal to ban the growing of genetically enhanced crops in the county.

Page 1 also reports the California Assembly's rejection of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's "million solar roofs" bill and increasing interest among state government officials in offshore oil and natural gas recovery as a revenue-raising measure.

Also in this issue:

• author Michael Crichton testifies before a U.S. Senate committee on the importance of science standards--especially when it comes to global warming;

• new data from the ongoing study of Seychelles island children confirms mercury exposure through fish consumption is not dangerous;

• Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has joined more than 100 scientists and human rights advocates in signing a petition calling for use of DDT in the fight against malaria;

• plus aquatic herbicides, Lake Okeechobee cleanup, oil sand and oil shale recovery, unintended consequences, Brazilian forests rescue, climate change, and more.