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Industry Oils Alaskan Land
BP Exploration pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally dumping hazardous wastes on Alaska’s North Slope and agreed to pay some $22 million to settle criminal and civil claims. Federal prosecutors say […]
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Take Out an Ad
The British Columbia government began running radio and newspaper ads yesterday accusing a native Indian tribe of illegally logging on public land. The government also started legal proceedings to stop […]
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Your One-Stop Shop for Carcasses, Pesticides, and Other Goodies
Rivers in North Carolina and New Jersey are horribly contaminated in the wake of Hurricane Floyd, and North Carolina officials say the state is facing its worst-ever environmental disaster. The […]
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This scientist is making quite a buzz
The San Rafael Desert — 500 square miles of rolling gravel broken by an occasional butte or sandstone formation — certainly isn’t the prettiest place in eastern Utah. Dotted with […]
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Le Car-less
Tens of thousands of citizens in Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Rome, and some 150 other European cities left their automobiles at home yesterday to observe a car-free day, the second annual […]
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Coming Soon: A 10K Salmon Run
A major electric utility in the Northwest, PacifiCorp, said yesterday that it would pay $17 million to remove a dam rather than cough up the $30 million that would have […]
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Tiger Salamander Lawsuits: They're Grrreat!
In a lawsuit filed this week against the feds, the Center for Biological Diversity is pressing to have the California tiger salamander and nine other critters in the West protected […]
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Peter Pence Gets Pounded
The poor in Britain are hit much harder by pollution than the rich, according to a new report produced by Friends of the Earth and the think tank Catalyst. In […]
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Californians to Stop Passing Gas?
The California Air Resources Board today will consider a first-of-its-kind crackdown on something usually not thought of as an environmental threat: small, portable gas cans. The cans are so leak-prone […]
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New Kink for Perverse Subsidies
If the world’s governments took just a portion of the money they use for environmentally damaging subsidies and used it for conservation efforts, the world’s rich diversity of species could […]
