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Eggs on Their Faces (Lots of Little Tiny Ones)

The U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species yesterday rejected a ban on Caspian Sea caviar proposed by a scientific advisory committee. Instead, the countries around the Caspian agreed […]

Ford Tore Us

Some Ford customers are lashing out at the automaker for becoming green around the edges. Stan Meager, a 59-year-old fruit grower in Oregon’s Klamath Basin region has been a “Ford […]

Rock the House

In a series of votes that weren’t even close, the Republican-controlled House took steps yesterday to block the Bush administration’s plans for oil and gas drilling on natural monuments, delay […]

Enemy Mine

Hundreds of local residents of a fishing village blocked Peru’s main north-south highway with boulders this week to protest a major new copper and zinc mine. Juan Pacifico, the mayor […]

Ethanol for Naught

The Bush administration has prepared a report for Congress that recommends continuing federal incentives for ethanol-fuel vehicles — even though the report also found that the program has failed to […]

Dork Kempthorne

Ceding to the concerns of the state of Idaho, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton moved yesterday to abandon plans to reintroduce grizzly bears into the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and […]

Standards and Poor Sports

Republicans are privately warning the auto industry that tougher fuel-economy standards may be inevitable this year unless it puts the pedal to the metal and significantly ramps up lobbying efforts. […]

Bush Gets Polled Over

More than 70 percent of respondents to a New York Times/CBS News poll thought that producing energy was more important to President Bush than protecting the environment, while 55 percent […]

Patton Down the Hatches

Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton (D) this week declared a six-month moratorium on additional applications for building power plants. He questioned whether the environment and power grid could cope with new […]

Here Squirty, Squirty, Squirty …

The population of killer whales between Canada and the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. continues to decline, and researchers aren’t sure why. They are particularly concerned about six of the […]