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The Roamin' Empire

Rome and about 150 other Italian cities banned cars from their centers yesterday, launching a campaign that will impose such bans on the first Sunday of each month through May […]

Orangu-tanking

The orangutan population in the forests of Indonesian Borneo has dropped by about 30 percent to as few as 15,000, the state Antara news agency said. The main cause of […]

Chevy Suburban Cowboys

Texas, which is plagued by dirty air, is considering adopting California’s strict vehicle pollution rules as early as this spring. The shift, one of a number of options being considered […]

Quit Hogging!

A group of Mississippi farmers and enviros are pushing forward with a $75 million class-action lawsuit against big hog producers for releasing pollutants that have made dozens of people sick. […]

UPS, UPS, and Away

A wide range of businesses are improving their environmental performance beyond what government regulations require and are finding that doing so boosts their images and saves them money. United Parcel […]

Take Back the Knight Rider

Automakers that sell vehicles in European Union countries would have to take back old cars and pay most of the cost for recycling and disposing of them under a bill […]

Petro-fying News

Enviros and Amazon natives fear that oil drilling in Ecuador may soon escalate dramatically. Ecuador last month replaced the national currency with the U.S. dollar in an attempt to pull […]

Hot Dam

Fishing guides, Indian tribes, biologists, and environmentalists showed up in force at a public hearing yesterday in Portland, Ore., to tell federal authorities that they want four dams on the […]

Double, Double for Forest Trouble

The Clinton administration today will announce a proposal to nearly double federal spending for protection of the world’s tropical rainforests to $150 million. Much of the money would be used […]

Get Along, Little Doggies

The Clinton administration acknowledged yesterday that the black-tailed prairie dog should be listed as a threatened species, but stopped short of granting it protection under the Endangered Species Act. Such […]