Uncategorized

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel — Oh Wait, There Is No Bottom

Radioactive contamination in groundwater may be 400 times higher than the federal standard at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state because high-level nuclear waste was buried 40 years ago […]

Fit to Be Tide

Red tides are becoming a severe environmental problem along China’s coast, killing tons of fish and costing the country more than $100 million every year. Red tides, which can be […]

Double, Double Oil and Trouble

George W. Bush unveiled an energy plan on Friday that would boost domestic oil production significantly and open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and other federal lands to drilling. […]

Bush Oil Plan: Exhibit A

The Supreme Court refused today to hear a case in which the ExxonMobil Corp. contended it should not have to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon […]

Nafis Enough

Under the leadership of Nafis Sadik, the U.N. Population Fund has been transformed from an organization that foisted contraceptives on women in order to meet fertility-control targets to one that […]

Royalty Flush

The White House and congressional leaders reached a compromise late last week on a landmark bill that would set aside $12 billion over six years for land conservation. The program, […]

How 'Bout One of Those GM Trees?

Got Wood?

After years of being criticized by enviros, the lumber industry is hoping to give its image a boost by spending $45 million on a three-year campaign to promote wood to […]

They Just Won't Kyoto the Line

Several Republican senators expressed skepticism yesterday that international negotiations on the Kyoto climate change treaty this November would produce an agreement the Senate would ratify. At a Senate hearing, Sen. […]

Give This a Whirl

A coalition of 38 businesses and environmental groups, ranging from the Whirlpool Corp. to the Natural Resources Defense Council, called on President Clinton this week to do more to promote […]