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Second Class Citizen
Al Gore spent his second class as a professor at Columbia University’s journalism school focusing on how the media cover global warming. Before the class, students were given materials suggesting […]
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In the Driver's Seat
With buddies of the auto industry now in charge of the White House, automakers said last week that they will no longer lobby to freeze federal fuel-efficiency standards. The Corporate […]
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What's Good for G.M. Is Bad for California
General Motors sued California on Friday to overturn the state’s zero-emissions-vehicle mandate, which requires automakers to produce a limited number of ZEV vehicles in 2003 and increase the number in […]
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The Rain in Spain Falls Wherever the Government Wants
Tens of thousands of demonstrators, including musicians and children, took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday to protest a massive $23 billion water diversion project in Spain. The plan, which […]
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Sunita Dubey, Toxics Link India
Sunita Dubey is a regional coordinator based in New Delhi for Toxics Link India, an information clearinghouse for toxics and related issues. Monday, 26 Feb 2001 DELHI, India As usual, […]
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Won't Somebody Please Take Out the Trash?
The garbage is piling up in New Delhi, India, because the city doesn’t have an adequate waste management system in place to handle the 8,800 tons of trash produced each […]
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Wounds in Our Salt
Forget underground storage for high-level nuclear wastes, says John Leivia, director of Strategic Environmental Technologies. Last week, his company proposed plans to inject thousands of canisters of plutonium into salt […]
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You Dropped a Bomb on Me, Navy
Opposition to Navy bombing exercises on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico is growing stronger as researchers on the island have found toxic levels of heavy metals in crabs, […]
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A Leap and Boundaries
Interior Secretary Gale Norton said yesterday that the Bush administration would not try to change the status of federal lands set aside as national monuments by former President Bill Clinton. […]
