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We're Not Gonna Take This Lion Down

The North Pacific fishing industry is proposing a rider to a major budget bill in the U.S. Congress that would lift a federal court injunction banning fishing in Alaskan waters […]

Slurry With the Dinge on Top

A huge spill of coal slurry into streams in eastern Kentucky has caused water shortages and school closings and prompted Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton (D) to declare a state of […]

Poll Bearers

Sixty-three percent of likely American voters say they favor government action that would force automakers to improve the gas mileage of SUVs, according to a Christian Science Monitor poll. Fifty-seven […]

Fairy, Fairy, Quite Contrary

In a decision that could curb sprawl and development in Southern California, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday that it is designating more than 500,000 acres as critical […]

Magnificent, Seven!

Seven of the world’s major corporations committed themselves yesterday to making significant reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, a voluntary effort to combat climate change ahead of any government requirements. […]

You Have to Fight for Your Right to Green Party

Though Vice President Al Gore stressed the importance of farmland conservation programs during last night’s final debate between the two major party presidential candidates, the environment got little play otherwise. […]

Another Fine Mess

Fine particle soot emitted from coal-burning power plants causes the premature deaths of an estimated 30,000 Americans each year, more people than die annually due to homicides or drunk driving, […]

Cut the Crapo

GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush likes to talk about cleaning up contaminated urban sites, or brownfields, and he has said that as president he would push Congress to speed […]

Keep Off Trucking

A science advisory committee to the U.S. EPA has agreed with the agency’s assessment that diesel fumes are a “likely human carcinogen,” clearing the way for the EPA to release […]

To Itch His Own

A chemical compound known to cause allergic reactions in people is widely used as a flame retardant in computer plastics, according to research published in the journal Environmental Science and […]