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After buying a hybrid a few months ago, I soon learned that the car was not achieving the projected miles per gallon. I heard from others that all cars fall below the EPA estimated gas mileage, but in my case the numbers were not even close. Fortunately, the current issue of Sierra magazine provides the details behind EPA’s misleading estimates, and the situation is even worse than suspected. How does the auto industry get away with this fraud, and why do legislators stand for it?...

2006 began on a bitter note along Yellowstone's northern boundary. On New Years Day, in Gardiner, the 17th bull bison was killed in Montana's illegitimate bison hunt....

RIGHT NOW there is an amendment on the congressional floor that sets a new timetable for the forced relocation of a number of indigenous Navajo families on Black Mesa. This bill, S1003, comes at a time when the world's largest coal company, Peabody Coal, prepares not only to continue, but in fact to expand its strip mining of American Indian lands. # This spring a caravan will be traveling to Black Mesa from Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area....

Stopwaste.org offers this 4-month training and environmental education program to promote the recycling of organic materials on the community level. Applications are due by January 13, 2006; visit our website at www.BayFriendly.org to apply on-line or download an application....

The DOI wants to open National Parks for exploitation....

The awesome power of water, once again destroys a community, though this one is much better poised to survive than the unfortunate victims of hurricane Katrina. Corte Madera Creek is usually a calm trickle and even kayakable most of the year. Perhaps not today....

Mayor Gavin Newsom better step in and stop this blatant conflict of interest in the Bayview. Again and again outside groups and here we have Arc Ecology wanting to do some little fake outreach by trying to win $283,500 per bid using UNDUE process known to the world as CONFLICT OF INTEREST. You cannot fool all the people all the time....

Highlights an attempt by government and corporations to open oldgrowth groves for logging....

In the GOP's latest hellish vision (bills S.2112 and HR 3824), the lives of living organisms would be bartered, traded, and thrown away like so much monopoly money in a "credit system. "...

The Southeast Sector is the last frontier in San Francisco. Candlestick Park and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is being vied by corrupt developers like Lennar BVHP LLC and the cronies working for Mayor Gavin Newsom - Jesse Blout, Dwayne Jones, Michael Cohen, Marcia Rosen - none of them live in San Francisco. They for sure make their money in San Francisco. Thousands of units will be built on toxic sites mostly landfill and prone to liquefaction....