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Paper or … Uh, Paper?

The South African government is considering a ban on plastic bags as a way to help clean up its littered streets and landscapes, Mohammed Valli Moosa, the nation’s new environment […]

Ford Cells Out

Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it would develop an experimental fuel-cell car powered by a hydrogen-burning internal combustion engine by year’s end. The company, which just opened a hydrogen […]

Psychiatric Help 5 Cents

Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), whom environmentalists love to hate, has taken to denouncing gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, and some enviros are reacting with schizophrenic behavior. While the Sierra Club in […]

The Unkindest Cut

The $792 billion tax-cut plan, passed by the GOP-controlled Congress and under veto threat from Pres. Clinton, would give more than $1 billion in subsidies over the next five years […]

Operation Butterfly Storm

The Group of 100, a leading Mexican environmental organization, yesterday called on the nation’s army to defend the winter refuge of monarch butterflies against heavily armed illegal loggers. Locals living […]

I Just Can't Help It — I Looove to Pollute!

A Tampa man portrayed by prosecutors as an incorrigible polluter was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in the slammer, the longest sentence ever given out in a federal environmental crimes […]

Wind-ing Up for the Pitch

The world’s most efficient wind turbine went to work today in Norfolk, Britain. The 220-foot turbine is thought to be the tallest in Europe and is 50 percent more powerful […]

I'll Drink to That

The Clinton administration is proposing a new regulation that would require states to write individual clean-up plans for every body of water that is too dirty for fishing and swimming, […]

Spotting Leopards

Scientists are using unattended cameras to record evidence of rich wildlife diversity in the Cambodian jungle, which until recently had been off-limits to scientists during three decades of civil war. […]

Of Homer and the Trojans

The owners of the defunct Trojan nuclear power plant in Oregon, which many locals believe was the inspiration for the accident-prone nuclear plant on “The Simpsons,” want to make the […]