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Go With the Phloem

Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman recommended on Friday that President Clinton give national monument status to 355,000 acres of national forest in California’s Sierra Nevadas, a move that would safeguard about […]

Pope Denounces Chinese Trade … Carl Pope, That Is

The Sierra Club today launched a campaign to defeat the U.S.-China trade pact that the Clinton administration is trying to push through Congress. Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope made […]

I Should Have Had a G-8!

Environmental ministers from the world’s eight leading industrialized nations ended a conference in Japan yesterday without agreeing on a deadline for ratifying the Kyoto climate change agreement. The European Union […]

Taint Nuthin'

Environmentalists joined labor unions and Washington state officials in celebrating their victory this weekend after thwarting plans to unload and temporarily store 110 tons of toxic waste in Seattle. A […]

Dave Harris, UC Berkeley Earth Week organizer

Dave Harris has spent his school year organizing for Earth Week 2000 at University of California, Berkeley, where he is a student. Monday, 10 Apr 2000 BERKELEY, Calif. It’s 5:45 […]

Orgy-porgy, Ford and Fun

Ford Motor Co. yesterday became the first U.S. automaker to commit to producing a gas-electric hybrid vehicle, a version of its Ford Escape SUV that the company says will hit […]

I've Got the World's Tiniest Violin …

The chair of Occidental Petroleum has filed suit against environmental and human rights activists who have been picketing his home and office to protest Occidental’s plans to drill for oil […]

Feel My Roth!

The Senate showed its support yesterday for opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a move vehemently opposed by enviros. The Senate voted 51-49 against dropping from the […]

Trunk and White

South Africa has sparked a big controversy with its proposal to sell a large stockpile of ivory believed to be worth $5 million. Africa’s elephant population was estimated last year […]

Gary, Gary Quite Contrary

Fourteen containers of PCB-contaminated waste have been sitting since Wednesday on a ship at the Port of Seattle, with dock workers refusing to unload the cargo and environmentalists threatening to […]