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Republicanes Plan to Mocke Ale Goree

House Republicans are gearing up to ridicule Al Gore for his environmental leanings, hoping to make him the butt of late-night TV jokes just as Dan Quayle was. Today, several […]

U.N. Says Yugoslav Environment Still Da Bomb

NATO’s bombardment of Yugoslavia seems not to have caused significant environmental damage, U.N. officials and some environmental groups said yesterday. Still, an official from the U.N. Environment Programme will continue […]

Habitat's Where Babbitt's At

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to protect 68 threatened and endangered species living in southern Florida. Babbitt said the government hopes the plan will become a […]

About Face … Backward, March

The U.S. auto industry is doing an about-face on the environment. Sort of. A six-article opus in the New York Times today focuses on the steps the industry is taking […]

Airing Their Opinions

The editorial pages of the nation’s major papers weighed in this week on an appeals court decision released last Friday that invalidated air quality standards for ozone and particulates approved […]

Food Fight

Britain’s top medical association yesterday made a strong call for genetically modified foods to be labeled as such, allowing consumers to choose to avoid them until they are proven more […]

Lake Woe, Be Gone

Officials are trying to preserve a lake in southwest China that serves as a wintering ground for dozens of species of waterfowl, but pressure from the 30,000 destitute people living […]

Fording Ahead

Ford took a big step forward yesterday in the race to build more environmentally friendly vehicles, announcing that it will reduce smog-causing tailpipe emissions from its light trucks an average […]

Higher Occurrence of Currents

Rather than producing new atmospheric circulation patterns, climate change may alter the frequency of existing patterns, with huge implications for weather around the world, a number of researchers say. One […]

Emitting Less NOx-ious Gas

The owner of two of New England’s most polluting power plants yesterday announced a three-year, $17 million plan to reduce emissions that cause smog and acid rain. U.S. Generating Co., […]