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Kerry on My Greenward Son

Kerry Pushes for High Fuel Economy As Americans face record-high gas prices, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is hawking his plan to raise automobile fuel-economy standards by as much as […]

A Thousand Points of Green

Enviro Movement Becoming Decentralized and Diversified Environmentalism is going grassroots. While two-thirds of Americans identify themselves as environmentalists, membership in big, mainstream enviro organizations stayed flat throughout the 1990s. IRS […]

The Environment Is a Girl’s Best Friend

Renowned Jewelry Firm Speaks Out Against Mine Proposal Jewelry company Tiffany & Co. — of “Breakfast at” fame — shocked the mining industry and the Bush administration yesterday when it […]

The Voluntary Duplicity Movement

California May Try Voluntary Fix for Dirty Diesel Engines Comedy? Tragedy? You decide. The story begins in 1998, when California regulators discovered that manufacturers of diesel engines for trucks, buses, […]

You Big Baby!

Pesticide Ban Leads to Higher Baby Birth Weights A ban on two common household pesticides resulted in a striking decline in the number of underweight infants born in areas where […]

Dispatches from a U.N. population meeting in the Big Apple

Caron Whitaker manages the Population & Environment Program at the National Wildlife Federation. This week she is attending a U.N. meeting to mark the 10th anniversary of the International Conference […]

Raising a Stink

Rural Residents Join Fight Against Factory Farms Environmental groups who oppose industrial-style concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) on the grounds that they pollute air and water are finding support from […]

Just In: Timber Take

Bush Plan Likely to Up Old-Growth Logging in Northwest The Bush administration is changing the Northwest Forest Plan to make it easier to log old-growth forests on public land in […]

Depot Man

Office Depot Announces Plan to Go Green Office-supply giant Office Depot is teaming up with respected conservation groups in an effort to green its business practices. A new five-year, $2.2 […]

We Are the World Bank

Proposal to Limit World Bank Fossil-Fuel Investments Sparks Controversy The World Bank has not yet officially responded to an independent report released last year that recommends it cease investing in […]