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Looking for Rare Plants in All the Wrong Places

Federal officials agreed yesterday to settle a lawsuit with enviros that has halted timber sales on 24.5 million acres of federal forests in Washington, Oregon, and California. The agreement would […]

Budget Ryder Hertz

The House yesterday overwhelmingly passed a massive budget bill that the Clinton administration says is a good deal for the environment. Congress knocked off a number of anti-environmental riders that […]

Gore on Off-Shore Leave

Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley yesterday unleashed his sharpest criticism yet of Vice Pres. Al Gore, lambasting the Clinton administration for announcing last week that it will renew undeveloped offshore […]

A Bush in Hand Is Worth … Oh, About $521,714

Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) raked in 79 percent of the money donated to presidential candidates by oil, auto, and electric power interests in the first nine months of […]

The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly on the Fish

Under pressure from enviros, the feds yesterday proposed an endangered species listing for wild Atlantic salmon in eight Maine rivers. Thousands of salmon once swam up the rives from the […]

U'Wa Get Pumped Up

About 200 U’wa Indians in northeast Colombia seized an area on Tuesday that they claim is an ancestral homeland to prevent Occidental Petroleum Corp. from oil drilling there. Occidental won […]

A Connecticut Attorney in King Coal's Court

Following the lead of federal and New York officials, Connecticut’s attorney general said yesterday that he intends to sue 16 coal-burning power plants in five Midwestern and Southern states over […]

Fleet Needs Enema

California’s schoolkids are breathing unhealthful exhaust spewed by diesel school buses that are among the nation’s oldest and most polluting, according to a report being released today by the Coalition […]

Montanans are now proud owners of the right to a clean environment

Should citizens in the United States have a constitutional right to clean air and clean water, just as they have rights to free speech and freedom of religion? That’s the […]

I Wish They All Could Be California Governors

California announced yesterday that it is filing suit against the feds over the issue of offshore oil drilling, demanding more of a say in decisions that will affect some of […]