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Why Be Normal?

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) will oppose granting China permanent normal trade relations, arguing that a trade deal with the country needs to encompass greater protections for the environment, […]

Captain's Courageous

Enviros and human rights activists are celebrating after Russia’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a lower court’s acquittal of anti-nuclear activist Alexander Nikitin, who had been accused of revealing state secrets […]

Ivory Illiquid

In a victory for conservation groups, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe yesterday withdrew controversial proposals to expand international trade in ivory. In a compromise deal reached at a meeting […]

West Virginia, Mountain Maim-ah

The Clinton-Gore administration disappointed some enviros yesterday as it made official for the first time its position on mountaintop-removal mining, a controversial technique used in West Virginia. A federal judge […]

No More Weepin' and A-Whalin'

Japan and Norway failed on Saturday in their controversial push to overturn an international ban on commercial trade in whales. Delegates from 150 nations at a meeting of the U.N. […]

Sequoia and You Shall Find

Posed against a scenic background of giant sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada, President Clinton on Saturday designated the nation’s newest national monument. Commercial logging, mining, and some recreational activities will […]

Galluping Ahead

Some 80 percent of Americans surveyed this month for a new Gallup Poll said they agree with the goals of the environmental movement, and 16 percent said they are actively […]

Good as Goldman

Vera Mischenko, a lawyer who established Russia’s first public-interest environmental law firm, is one of eight grassroots activists from around the world who today will receive prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes. […]

Denis Hayes, Earth Day Network

Denis Hayes is chair of Earth Day Network. He was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day in 1970 and now earns his keep as president of the Bullitt […]

Damn Those Snakes!

Federal officials say they are likely to delay making a recommendation about the fate of four dams on the Snake River in southeastern Washington until after the November presidential election. […]