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Jamie Lennox, Alliance for the Wild Rockies

Jamie Lennox is membership coordinator for the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and a board member of the Wild Rockies Legislative Action Fund. He previously worked for the Missoula Independent, […]

Bright Lights, Big Donations

GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush is winning over big business with help from a college chum, Thomas Kuhn, head of the Edison Electric Institute, an electric utility trade group. […]

I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rainforests

A thick, hazy smog caused by the burning of rainforests in Indonesia is spreading across Southeast Asia this week, reminiscent of the 1997 smog that caused rampant health problems and […]

A Hot New Trend

The hot, dry weather that is now plaguing much of the U.S., and which has killed 182 people, appears to extend what federal scientists say is a trend toward more […]

Bay Watch

The San Francisco Bay looks and smells a lot better these days than it did 30 years ago, in part because municipal sewage and industrial waste are no longer dumped […]

The E in E-Commerce Ain't Energy

Emissions of carbon dioxide in the U.S. remained almost flat last year, rising only 0.4 percent, despite a booming U.S. economy that grew almost 4 percent and gasoline prices that […]

A Fine French Whine

Pollution is the top worry for French citizens, with 85 percent of respondents in a recent poll saying they are concerned about the problem. The Paris area has had severe […]

A Drought of Good Sense

A House subcommittee this week took up Rep. Joe Knollenberg’s (R-Mich.) quest to repeal part of a 1992 law that gave the feds license to require that new toilets be […]

A Good Sense of Drought

Parris N. Glendening (D) yesterday declared Maryland’s first statewide drought emergency in history and said mandatory water conservation measures probably will be imposed as soon as next week. In the […]

High Yangtz-iety

For the second year running, floods are wreaking havoc in the Yangtze River valley. In an effort to stem the problem, China’s cabinet last year issued an order banning logging […]