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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 […]

Canyonland crusader plays Mother Goose

Skip Edwards is in his yard in rural Crawford, Colo., doing one of his favorite things: crawling behind Chaco, the goose he lives with. This is pretty much his job […]

Go West, Young Wolf

Wolf populations introduced into Idaho three years ago are thriving and expanding westward, with wolves expected to hit Oregon within one or two years, says Pete Frost of the National […]

Putting in Their Two-Pence Worth

British customers are quite interested in buying their electricity from renewable sources, but they are reluctant to pay more than 10 percent over regular prices for it, according to a […]

Enforcement Like a Bump on a Log

California’s logging rules and enforcement are too weak, allowing excessive tree cutting that leads to mudslides, damaged water supplies, and endangered fish and wildlife, according to a study released yesterday […]

FAO Swats Pesticides

More than 100,000 stocks of obsolete pesticides in Africa, the Middle East, Poland, and the Ukraine pose serious threats to human health and the environment, according to the U.N. Food […]

Canadian Commissioner's Poison Pen

The Canadian government is failing to protect its citizens from toxic chemicals and pesticides, according to a damning report released yesterday by Brian Emmett, the nation’s commissioner of the environment […]