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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 […]

Funereal Disease

Pyres of animals being burnt in the U.K. because of the foot-and-mouth disease are producing more dioxin than all of the country’s factories combined. The burning has put the country […]

Austin is losing the battle to protect the Barton Springs salamander

At first blush, it hardly seems fair to compare the plight of the Barton Springs salamander to that of endangered species such as the fierce grizzly of the Northern Rockies […]

Something in the Air

Almost all doubt has been removed that particulate pollution causes significant health problems, according to U.S. EPA scientists working on a draft review of the issue. The review takes into […]

Standards and the Poor

In a precedent-setting decision for the environmental-justice movement, a federal judge last week blocked the opening of a cement additive plant in a poor black neighborhood in Camden, N.J. The […]