Uncategorized

Hungary Thirsty for Clean Water

More than a month after a disastrous cyanide spill at a gold mine in Romania killed hundreds of tons of fish in the Tisza and Danube rivers and polluted the […]

A River Runs — Sue It!

The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out an appeal by four conservative Western lawmakers who had challenged President Clinton’s authority to designate “American Heritage Rivers” for special federal assistance and […]

Hold Your Fire!

Hundreds of forest fires are spreading out of control in the Indonesian regions of Sumatra and West Kalimantan, sending up huge clouds of smoke and threatening air quality across Southeast […]

Thank You Very Little

The Supreme Court yesterday unanimously struck down the tough oil-spill prevention rules that Washington state enacted after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. The justices said that in most […]

Doin' It Dogging Style

Environmental demonstrators are dogging Al Gore on the campaign trail, demanding that he act on behalf of the U’wa indigenous tribe in Colombia, whose ancestral rainforest lands are threatened by […]

Party On, Ralph

Ralph Nader plans to mount an aggressive campaign for president as a Green Party candidate, spreading the party’s message of environmental protection, an end to corporate welfare, and health care […]

You've Got to Fight For the Right Whales

Alarmed at the increasing number of Northern right whales being injured or killed by fishing gear, one of New England’s top environmental groups announced plans yesterday to sue the federal […]

That's Just Fen With Us

Environmentalists are cheering new federal rules limiting development on wetlands, which were announced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The regulations, aimed at slowing the steady disappearance of […]

Holy Sheet!

The melting of ice sheets and glaciers around the world accelerated during the 1990s, the warmest decade on record, and the melting is now happening at the fastest rate since […]

Go Tell It on Green Mountain

A rich Texas businessman who is one of George W. Bush’s biggest campaign contributors admitted on Friday that he had paid $2.5 million to run TV ads that accuse John […]