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Too Often Is Heard a Discouraging Word

Americans are discouraged by environmental problems and are losing interest in them, according to a new review of public opinion surveys. In 1989, 51 percent of Americans worried a great […]

Spanish Fly in Face of Energy Tax

A European energy tax and other measures to combat climate change could create up to 1.9 million new jobs in the European Union, according to a study released yesterday by […]

Poor Yeti

Glaciers in the Himalayas are threatened by global warming and most of them could melt within 40 years, perhaps causing catastrophic floods in areas inhabited by millions, according to a […]

A Monica You Want to Hear About

Leaders of Santa Monica, Calif., declared yesterday that they are fed up with dirty air caused by coal-fired power plants and will power city-owned buildings with electricity generated from geothermal […]

Eh, B.C., You Get a "D" on Salmon

Salmon runs are rapidly declining in British Columbia mimicking patterns in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, according to speakers yesterday at a fish habitat symposium in Vancouver, B.C. Salmon are suffering […]

Baby, You Can't Drive My Car

Hundreds of miles of roads in British town and city centers are being put off-limits to cars as local authorities make radical changes to transportation policies. Measures are also being […]

Spore Judgment

Hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria — enough to destroy the world many times over — was buried in an unsafe fashion on a remote island in the inland Aral […]

WWF Body Slams Olympics

The Austrian, Italian, and Swiss arms of the World Wildlife Fund yesterday urged the International Olympic Committee to delay for a year its choice of venue for the 2006 Winter […]

If It's Not One Blowup, It's Another

After spending 16 years and $489 million on part a plan to safely store millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production, the Energy Department has abandoned […]

Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project

Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Tuesday, 1 […]