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Joe Cool

Al Gore yesterday chose as his running mate Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), a strong environmental advocate who has earned a 95 percent rating from the League of Conservation Voters over […]

DOE, Oh Dear

More than two-thirds of the 144 sites related to nuclear weapons production in the U.S. will never be clean enough to allow for unrestricted public use, according to a report […]

Notes From the Underground

In violation of a 1998 federal deadline, state and local governments are continuing to operate thousands of old underground fuel tanks that may be leaking chemicals into water supplies. Leaking […]

Do You Sea What I Sea?

Standing at a scenic spot along the Massachusetts shore yesterday, President Clinton signed into law a bipartisan bill intended to protect the nation’s oceans and coastal areas. The law will […]

Johnny-Come-Too-Lately

ABC News admitted yesterday that a “20/20” report by John Stossel criticizing organic produce contained inaccurate information and said the reporter would apologize on the air this Friday for his […]

Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada

Elizabeth May is the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada and a lifelong environmental activist. She is also a lawyer, educator, writer, and mother. Her most recent book, […]

All We Are Saying Is Give Greenpeace a Chance

Hoping to rebound after several years of internal troubles, Greenpeace USA has found a new executive director: John Passacantando, cofounder and head of Ozone Action. Passacantando hopes to merge the […]

Prosthetics That Don't Cost an Arm and a Leg

An innovative recycling effort in Thailand is converting used plastic bottles and aluminum cans into prosthetic limbs for people who have been maimed by land mines. The program was launched […]

Turning Over a New Maple Leaf

Efforts in Canada to curb climate change would have little effect on the country’s economy, according to two new reports, one by the national Department of Finance and another by […]

We Bring Bad Things to Light

Environmentalists and concerned citizens are angry that nearly a dozen former government environmental regulators have gone to work for General Electric to help the company avoid paying for the PCB […]