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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Not Us

Mobil CEO Lucio A. Noto got testy yesterday when enviros suggested that the company’s planned merger with Exxon, approved overwhelmingly by stockholders yesterday, would create an environmentally irresponsible monster. Noto […]

This Is the Place

The Clinton administration and Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R) have reached a broad general agreement that could result in more than 1 million acres of wilderness in Utah’s West Desert. […]

Birth of a Breach Idea

The feds must breach four dams on the lower Snake River in order to honor treaty obligations to Indian tribes in the Northwest, according to a new report from a […]

Fly Wolf

Two more packs of Mexican gray wolves were released into eastern Arizona last week, bringing the number of wolves in the area’s reintroduction program to at least 19. One pack, […]

Killer Waves, Dude!

An Israeli company made a deal yesterday to sell an innovative new system that can generate electricity from the motion of ocean waves. An Indian company agreed to pay $4 […]

Numb and Dumber

Sixty-nine percent of voters think Vice Pres. Al Gore would do a good job of handling the environment as president, according to a new USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll. Fifty-seven percent reject […]

Court: Burn, Baby, Burn

A federal appeals court ordered the EPA yesterday to put on hold a regulation that would require 22 states to reduce their production of smog-causing gases that drift into other […]

Wails from Japan

Japan will seek to remove some whale species from the international endangered species list in hopes that it can resume commercial whaling, the nation said yesterday at a meeting of […]

A Bad Acid Trip

Romania is being hit with acid rain and increased water and air pollution as a direct result of NATO’s bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, the Romanian environment ministry said yesterday. Air […]

Nah, Wilderness!

Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah) is trying to throw a wrench into the creation of new wilderness study areas in Utah. A provision Hansen has tacked onto an Armed Services authorization […]