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Does This Make Up for Teflon Bullets?

Giant U.S. chemical company DuPont announced yesterday that it intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, taking “early action” before the Kyoto […]

Fright of the Condor

The National Audubon Society yesterday denounced plans for a new wind energy project north of Los Angeles in the historical habitat of the endangered California condor. As part of the […]

A-bomb-inable

Two areas in Yugoslavia hit by NATO air strikes this spring are environmental “hot spots” in need of immediate decontamination, Pekka Haavisto, head of the U.N. environment team’s Balkan task […]

Gloria Feldt, Planned Parenthood

Gloria Feldt is president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Monday, 13 Sep 1999 NEW YORK CITY Monday started on Sunday. A call from Mel Carnahan, the governor of […]

Do the Wild Thing

The Wildlands Project, an eight-year-old Tucson-based group, aims to revolutionize wilderness protection in North America by linking wild areas from coast to coast. Launched by Michael Soule, considered by some […]

Inventor of the Internet, Savior of the Fish Net

Vice Pres. Al Gore is catching flak for announcing a $5 million aid package for the troubled New England fishing industry, but neglecting to mention that the aid was not […]

Terroriffic!

Environmentalists have stepped in where the feds feared to tread, publishing on the Internet information about the risks of chemical accidents in the U.S., including state-by-state summaries of potential “worst-case […]

Bill Clinton, Weather Vane for Trade Winds

Pres. Clinton yesterday warned business and political leaders that they need to address the environmental and social concerns of average citizens as they pursue a more open trading system, a […]

Food Not Fit for a Dog

U.S. farmers are in a near panic because of growing uncertainty over genetically modified crops, and the American Corn Growers Association has even claimed that multinational seed and chemical companies […]

Pop Goes the Treaty

Negotiators from 115 countries have reached tentative agreement to end the production of eight dangerous chemicals as early as 2003 or 2004, when an international treaty on phasing out the […]