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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 […]

Ice, Ice Maybe

The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has thinned by about 40 percent in the last 20 to 40 years, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. […]

Meriwether Friend

The Sierra Club is launching a five-year campaign to protect and restore millions of acres of wildlands along the route traveled nearly 200 years ago by the explorers Meriwether Lewis […]

Without Mangroves, India is Swamped

Rapid logging of the mangrove forest that stretches across coastal areas in India’s southeastern state of Orissa seems to have contributed to the terrible destruction caused by an October 29 […]

Trade Win?

Seeking to shore up enviro support and mollify free trade critics, Vice Pres. Al Gore announced yesterday that Pres. Clinton will sign an executive order requiring full environmental reviews of […]

What's Eating Leonardo DiCaprio?

You may remember him from such box-office blockbusters as “Titanic” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest project is even bigger — getting the world to do something about climate […]

Carboys and Indians

Fifteen years after a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked a poisonous gas that killed at least 7,000 people in Bhopal, India, and permanently injured tens of thousands more, survivors and […]