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Everyone Talks About the Weather, but We Did Something About it

The new century has already seen a number of volatile weather events of the type scientists predict would accompany global warming. Tornado-like winds and torrential rain hit parts of Southern […]

Planet Envy

For He's a Jolly Good Felon

Federal prosecutors are now charging about three times as many people for environmental crimes as they were 10 years ago, and the EPA is sending about four times as many […]

Wheeler Dealer

Just in time for Earth Day, Al Gore is trying to burnish his green image. Today he travels to Detroit on behalf of the administration to announce a new deal […]

Adding Injury to Insult

Two environmental protestors have been injured this week while trying to interfere with the gray whale hunt that the Makah native tribe in Washington state started up a few days […]

Extra Credit

A World Bank emissions trading program that will finance clean energy projects in developing countries has generated more money and more government and corporate interest than expected, and the bank […]

Spencer for Hire

From 1995 to 2000, the auto industry gave more than twice as much in campaign contributions to senators who voted against possible new fuel efficiency standards as it gave to […]

Rudolph, the Brown-Nosed Rainmaker?

Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday called on her opponent in the New York Senate race, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R), to return a $100,000 soft-money donation from a company […]

Marquis de Slade

The Clinton administration continues to give signs that it will postpone until after the presidential election a recommendation on whether to breach four dams on the lower Snake River in […]

Hazing Ritual

A number of state environmental officials who have chafed under tough federal air quality regulations plan to meet in Michigan next week with executives of polluting industries to discuss how […]