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Tom's Turn: Notes from our Senior Editor

Tom's Turn is now a blog! Read Tom's Turn in it's new format here.

Tom Turner has been writing about the environment since 1968. Now you can read his irreverent analysis of breaking news and longer trends—with lots of links to news reports and other resources.

Tom's Turn Archive 2002 - 2007

A Climate Hero Who Isn't Named Gore (12/17/07)

Oil and Water Tragedy (11/20/07)

Roadless, Chapter XXXVIII (10/25/07)

Will They Ever Learn? Hint -- the Answer Is No. (09/21/07)

On Energy -- We've Got It All Wrong (08/14/07)

Breathing Carbon (07/19/07)

Odds and Ends (06/22/07)

Creative Litigation (05/11/07)

The Readers Speak! (04/17/07)

Going Nuclear? (03/22/07)

Warming to Politics (02/23/07)

Bears and Eagles (01/19/07)

Roadless Rising (12/19/06)

What is a Road? (10/20/06)

Solar Electricity Cost Falling Fast (08/31/06)

"Hypocracy" (08/16/06)

Petitions and Politics (07/20/06)

Shenanigans at Home and Abroad (06/15/06)

Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee (05/22/06)

Wise Words from Two Judges Plus Salmon Woes (04/18/06)

Roadless Returns (03/17/06)

Addicted to Oil (02/16/06)

Grist for the Mill (01/15/06)

Kane County Chutzpah (11/15/05)

Government Ain't All Bad (09/15/05)

NEPA Under Fire (08/15/05)

Roadless Redux (07/15/05)

Higher and Deeper (06/15/05)

Marc Lappé (05/15/05)

Sedimental Journey (04/15/05)

Manipulating Science (03/15/05)

Open for Business (02/15/05)

No Tree Left Behind (01/15/05)

Science Under Siege (10/15/04)

Logging, Terrorism, Species, Economics (09/15/04)

If at first you don't succeed...delay! (Or, what's that I smelt?) (08/15/04)

Roadless Rule Redux (07/15/04)

Never a dull moment... (06/15/04)

Need Your Help (05/15/04)

Schwarzenegger's new currency (04/15/04)

Is the Sky Falling? (03/15/04)

Motions at 2,000 Miles: Judges at Odds Over Snowmobile Phase-Out (02/15/04)

No pesticide for industry infestation (01/15/04)

Enemies in high places (12/15/03)

Fleet of Mystery (11/15/03)

Air regulations work. Imagine that. (10/15/03)

LIVE! From WTO in Mexico! (09/15/03)

Political Science (08/15/03)

Summer Reading (07/15/03)

Taking 'National' out of the National Forests (06/15/03)

War on Wilderness (05/15/03)

Civics 1A (03/15/03)

Hawaiian habitats need help (02/15/03)

Uranium Enrichment Plant? No thanks! (01/15/03)

Beyond the federal courts (12/15/02)