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Yucky Mountain

Despite a fierce fight from Nevada’s two senators, the Senate voted yesterday to have thousands of tons of nuclear waste shipped from power plants across the U.S. to a repository […]

A Pain in Harass

U.S. Forest Service employees in Nevada say they’ve been harassed, intimidated, and threatened by locals who are hostile toward federal land-use policies, and some say they fear for their safety. […]

In Deep Doo Doo

A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit filed by loggers who claimed that the U.S. Forest Service was under the sway of a nature-based religion. A coalition of loggers […]

Crime Doesn't Pay — But Criminals Do

The European Commission endorsed plans yesterday to make polluting companies and individuals legally responsible for the cost of the damage they cause. The commission will now draft a new “polluter […]

Green Apple

The Battery Park City Authority in New York City is holding a competition asking developers to submit plans for the nation’s first eco-friendly residential high-rise. The building must incorporate such […]

Seeking Closure

Enviros are calling on Texas to tighten shrimping restrictions on the Gulf Coast to protect sea turtles, including the endangered Kemp’s ridley turtle. In 1999, shrimp fishing was responsible for […]

City Sickers

Air pollution is rampant in Russia, where about 120 cities have noxious gases in the air at more than five times acceptable limits, according to the head of the nation’s […]

Go West, Old Man

The Clinton administration, which raised the ire of many Western Republicans last month by creating three new national monuments, is considering designating more monuments in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Oregon, […]

Ending Acid's Reign

New Hampshire will join an EPA lawsuit against dirty coal-fired power plants in the Midwest, Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D) announced earlier this week. New Hampshire officials contend that emissions from […]

Polluting Young Minds

As an increasing number of teachers across the U.S. add the environment to their lesson plans, corporations are competing with green groups to get their messages and materials into classrooms. […]