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Following Conventions

Many environmentalists and other activists who caused a ruckus during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle late last year are planning to descend on Los Angeles next week to […]

Log On

Some citizens in the small logging town of Forks, Wash., are hoping to make it a high-tech haven and a model for rural communities around the world. In the past, […]

Beach Scums

The number of U.S. beach closings and advisories caused by pollution rose by 50 percent from 1997 to 1999, according to the latest annual beach quality report from the Natural […]

Long Island Sound-off

Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York’s Democratic Senate candidate, yesterday attacked the environmental record of her Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, and talked up her own green convictions. On a campaign tour […]

Riding the Heat Wave

With California suffering from a heat wave and on the brink of exhausting its electrical power supply, Gov. Gray Davis (D) this week mandated new energy conservation measures in the […]

Putting His Asbestos Foot Forward

GOP vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney and the energy company he runs, Halliburton Co., have contributed more than $150,000 to members of Congress who co-sponsored legislation that would curtail the […]

Air Apparent

Spurred by Beijing’s bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics, China is pledging to ramp up its effort to clean the country’s air. Last year, Beijing’s air qualified for the government’s […]

Laissez-fair?

U.S. enviros said yesterday that a Clinton administration plan for making international trade negotiations more eco-friendly is a good first step but doesn’t go nearly far enough. Under rules proposed […]

Johnny Bad-Seed

Even as the controversy around genetically modified (GM) crops escalates, few people are aware that a biotech revolution in forestry is also underway, with GM trees being developed and tested […]

Graham Slam

Environmentalists yesterday called on Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), a potential Democratic vice presidential candidate, to come out against a proposed commercial airport in south Florida, saying the expansion of the […]