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Ohm, My Goodness!

Energy conservation has saved California $34 billion since 1977, roughly $1,000 for each resident, and has played a big role in helping the state’s economy grow, according to a new […]

Trade in Those Mittens for Oven Mitts

January through March of this year was the warmest such three-month period in the U.S. during the past 106 years of record keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

Won't You Be My Nader?

Friends of the Earth, which created a stir by endorsing Bill Bradley over Al Gore in the Democratic presidential primary, may shun Gore again in the general election and give […]

Tell Us Something We Don't Know

Yup, global warming is happening and humans seem to be to blame, according to an early draft of a long-awaited report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This new […]

Buddy, Can You Spare a Bear?

Canadian enviro groups are getting upset over a plan to remove a few dozen grizzly bears from British Columbia and reintroduce them to the Selway-Bitterroot wilderness of Idaho and Montana. […]

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. […]