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GE, We Bring Bad Things to Fish

The Bush administration asked a federal judge yesterday to dismiss a challenge by General Electric to the Superfund toxic waste cleanup law. Companies faced with multi-million dollar cleanup costs have […]

They’re All Ears

Farm states and the environment both stand to gain from a provision in a Democratic energy bill that would require gasoline refiners to triple their use of corn-based ethanol by […]

Canada Dry?

Perhaps following the cue of its southern neighbor, Canada announced earlier this week that it’s in no hurry to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. The announcement, made […]

Kenya Believe It?

If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation’s energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty […]

They Drilled Kenny!

President Bush approved on Friday a plan to bury the nation’s radioactive waste in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, provoking a firestorm of outrage and an immediate lawsuit by the state’s governor, […]

Sea Change

The rise in sea levels this century due to glaciers and ice caps melting away under higher global temperatures could be almost three times what scientists have previously estimated, according […]

Fight Club

The U.S. EPA and the Energy Department are engaged in fierce infighting over the White House’s proposed revisions to the Clean Air Act, according to internal EPA documents obtained by […]

Little Drummer Buoy

For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge — and now the waste […]

Doe, Oh Dear!

In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to […]

Lori Urso, Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association

Lori Urso is the executive director of the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association. Tuesday, 19 Feb 2002 HOPE VALLEY, R.I. My week begins, as my last one ended, with lingering decisions: Decisions […]