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Hill's Tree Blues

After living two years in giant California redwood to protest the logging of old-growth trees, Julia “Butterfly” Hill took her fight to ground-level yesterday. Hill, who descended from the branches […]

Don't Be Pokey, Man — Dump the Nukes

Public opinion has taken a sharp turn against nuclear power in Japan, following a tragic September accident at a nuclear fuel plant in Tokaimura that exposed scores of people to […]

Get Fired Up

Citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio, are leaning on Vice Pres. Al Gore to keep a promise he made in 1992 to block the opening of a local hazardous-waste incinerator that’s […]

Air Plan Takes Off

The Chinese government has launched a big millennial campaign to clean up Beijing, with an eye toward the possibility of winning the right to host the Olympics in 2008. More […]

Suit Case Closed

In an important victory for enviros, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the right of citizens groups to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and […]

What's Good for G.M. Is Good for the Country?

General Motors has dropped its EV1 electric car from production, announcing yesterday that it is shifting its focus to vehicles powered by hybrid fuel-electric systems and fuel cells. At the […]

Brother, Can You Spare Us This Nickel?

The U.S. Energy Department is backing away from a plan to sell its huge stock of nickel left over from nuclear weapons manufacture, acknowledging that it may be too radioactive […]

What's Good for G.M. Foods Is Bad for the Country

The U.S. government isn’t likely to require labels on genetically modified foods, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said Monday. “I, at this stage, do not see any of what I […]

Clinton Paper Moons Enviros

The Clinton administration announced yesterday that it has appealed a federal judge’s order that enviros be named to two panels advising the U.S. trade representative on wood and paper products. […]

Timber Tantrumzania

Rampant illegal logging is threatening ecological disaster in Tanzania’s pristine forests, according to a recent report by the International Development Research Center in Canada. Police have begun to set up […]