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Barnes Storming

Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) is close to reaching a compromise with environmentalists who have sued state and federal agencies over air-quality concerns and kept metro Atlanta’s $36 billion transportation […]

Sturgeons General Warning

Representatives from more than 150 nations are meeting this week in West Virginia to consider changes to a U.N. treaty protecting endangered species. One hot topic is likely to be […]

Peake-achu

As a first step toward reaching their goal of stopping all releases of chemical pollutants into Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia are signing an agreement today […]

Hi! My Beloved Country

South Africa announced this weekend that it has been selected to host the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development, a.k.a. the Earth Summit 2002. More than 40,000 delegates will likely […]

Bleach Blanket Bingo

U.S. Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta announced four initiatives to help preserve coral reefs yesterday, after a monitoring group released a report saying that 27 percent of the world’s reefs were […]

Everglades Super Fresh

President Clinton yesterday signed into law what was the only piece of major environmental legislation passed by Congress this year, a $7.8 billion plan to restore the Florida Everglades over […]

Flipper Flap

That most coveted and contentious of labels — dolphin-safe tuna — remains before the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The Clinton administration wants to relax the […]

Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

Jeff Ruch is executive director of PEER, a service organization helping federal, state, and local agency scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers, and other professionals uphold environmental values within public […]

Eight Years Is Enough

After eight years of often contentious negotiation among environmentalists, Native Americans, and representatives of the mining and logging industries, British Columbia has approved a plan to preserve 5 million more […]

POP Stars

Delegates from 122 nations reached agreement yesterday on a treaty to ban or reduce the use of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs), chemicals such as PCBs and pesticides that have […]