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Pulling Another Babbitt Out of the Hat

U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Friday recommended the creation of a new national monument near the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona and the expansion of an existing monument in […]

Fit to Be Thai-ed

Environmentalists and other concerned citizens in Thailand are waging a fierce fight against a proposed coal-fired power plant along the shore of the Gulf of Thailand, a project that they […]

Yelling Fire in a Crowded Political Theater

Texas Gov. George W. Bush, campaigning in the Northwest over the weekend, defended himself against accusations that his state is an environmental mess. He claimed that Texas’s air and water […]

A Silent Spring in His Step

Al Gore called for a renewed commitment to environmental protection during a Saturday campaign stop at the Pennsylvania birthplace of environmental pioneer Rachel Carson. He spoke of how her groundbreaking […]

Ban Rolls Off

Content that new federal limits on catching swordfish will buoy the fish’s population, two environmental groups are ending their two-year campaign to convince restaurants not to serve swordfish. The National […]

Goody, Two Shoes!

Nike says it is incorporating the environment into its decision-making, and even Greenpeace cautiously agrees that the company seems to be moving in the right direction. Nike says that by […]

Take a Walkerton on the Wild Side

Pressured by public anger over the deaths of six people in May from an E. coli outbreak in the water system of Walkerton, Ontario, the provincial government promised yesterday to […]

Aussie-some

Enviros and other activists are making plans to disrupt a September meeting of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, Australia, in the spirit of the Seattle protests last year against […]

Drain, Drain, Go Away

Saying the move would protect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands a year, the Clinton administration yesterday proposed closing a loophole that allows wetlands to be developed. The Clean […]

Fueling Groovy

General Motors and ExxonMobil announced yesterday what they called a breakthrough in fuel-cell technology for automobiles. The companies have developed a new system that converts gasoline into hydrogen that is […]