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J. Crud

The U.S. catalog industry last year produced 17 billion catalogs, or 64 for each American, and used 3.35 million tons of paper, more than 12 percent of all the printing […]

Tibet-er Late Than Never

After years of clashes between poor Tibetans trying to make a living from the land and foreign environmentalists trying to save forests, conservation groups and agencies like the U.N. Development […]

They're Going Through a Phase — You Know, Hormones

Biotechnology advocates and opponents squared off yesterday in Chicago at the first of three public debates on genetically modified foods being hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The […]

Brooking No Damage to Blue Lagoon

A U.N. report made public yesterday warned of potential environmental harm from a salt plant that Mitsubishi and the Mexican government want to build on a lagoon in Baja California, […]

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 […]