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Reinventing the Wheels

EU ambassadors voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would force automakers to take back old cars and pay for the cost of recycling or reusing them, overriding opposition […]

Sit-In on the Dock of the Bay

Dockworkers, environmentalists, and the regional EPA office in Seattle joined forces yesterday to stop the first in a series of shipments of potentially toxic waste from Taiwan due to be […]

Gore Plays Heart and Soul

Vice Pres. Al Gore played the good environmentalist yesterday in New Hampshire, designating the Connecticut River, which winds through four New England states, as an American Heritage River and announcing […]

Californians Log Off

In an effort to improve water quality and protect fish populations, California Gov. Gray Davis (D) has proposed new regulations to tighten logging restrictions along streams on private forestland. But […]

Lettuce Have Standards

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to offer up a second proposal for national organic standards by the end of this year. The first draft of proposed standards, unveiled in […]

Uncrossing the Delaware

Fish populations in the Delaware River in Pennsylvania are making a striking comeback following a major river cleanup effort. In the last 20 years, levels of harmful ammonia and bacteria […]

Freezing Their Assets Off

A Dutch court has frozen the assets of Greenpeace International at the urging of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., which was the target of a nuclear protest by the enviro group […]

Cruise: Spigots Wide Open

Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world’s second largest cruise line, agreed yesterday to pay $18 million and plead guilty to 21 felony charges of dumping waste oil and hazardous waste at […]

My, What a Big Population You Have

Northern gray wolves could move off the endangered species list in as few as three years, according to Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. […]

Balance Beamed

Six environmental groups filed suit yesterday against the federal government, arguing that they should have seats on two federally established committees that advise the U.S. on forest product trade issues. […]