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Caught With Their Briefs Down

The White House has told the Justice Department to figure out a legal way to cast aside former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres […]

Smells Like Clean Spirit

Environmentalists in Kuwait — indeed a rare breed — celebrated scent-free, fresh air on Earth Day in the town of al-Qurain, nine miles south of Kuwait City. Thirty years ago, […]

Nappy Stir Up

Environmental groups in the U.K. want the country’s National Health Service to spearhead a campaign to use cloth nappies (that’s Brit for “diapers”) instead of disposable ones. The Women’s Environmental […]

Kempthorne in Their Paws

Say goodbye for now to one enviro fad — more grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. Interior Secretary Gale Norton is preparing to drop the Clinton administration’s plan to […]

Fad Tuesday

President Bush said yesterday he supports a clean environment, but would “make decisions based upon sound science, not some environmental fad or what may sound good.” He defended his environmental […]

The Race Goes to the Swift

Massachusetts Acting Gov. Jane Swift (R) unveiled regulations this week that will make the state the first to limit carbon-dioxide and mercury emissions from power plants. The rules, which will […]

Bee Bop

The environmental movement has become big business, concludes the Sacramento Bee in a five-part series this week. In 1999, the most recent year for which such figures are available, the […]

No, Mobiles

The Bush administration yesterday let stand a rule approved by former President Clinton to ban snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but it said that it hoped to […]

Rainbow Worriers

Wearing surgical masks to draw media attention, Greenpeace activists sailed out of Russia yesterday on a month-long crusade to raise public awareness about the problems of chemical pollution in the […]

Well, at Least He Keeps Some of His Promises

White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer said yesterday that U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman had spoken in “confusion” on Sunday when she announced that Vice President Dick Cheney’s secretive energy […]