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Kawasaki Lets the Good Times Roll
The Japanese government settled a 17-year legal battle yesterday with 500 citizens who have been made sick by air pollution. The plantiffs, who live along highways in Kawasaki, an industrial […]
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Go Blow It on the Mountain
A rider that would allow a mining company to blow a 900-foot hole in a mountain in Washington state and dump mining waste on federal land has so far remained […]
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Organic Farmers Cross over Pollination
Pollen from genetically engineered plants can travel significant distances and contaminate other crops, according to a report commissioned by the British government and leaked to the public this week. The […]
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Step on the Gas, Ford
Ford Motor Co. Chair Bill Ford Jr. talked up the company’s commitment to the environment yesterday at its annual shareholders meeting. Several stockholders at the meeting charged that the company […]
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Ja, Ja, Let's Get This Finnished
European Union governments reached agreement yesterday on a common approach for international talks next month on the Kyoto climate change treaty. Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands had sought to water […]
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L.A.D.P. Green
The Los Angeles Department of Power and Water, the nation’s largest municipal utility, is leaning green. Today the department is launching a “Green Power” program that will let customers get […]
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Spoken Like an Athlete
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley, speaking to YMCA volunteers and young people in Manchester, N.H., about the environment: “My approach would be to try to clean up what is polluted […]
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A Slice of Eden Saved by Divine Intervention
Bette Midler (a.k.a. the Divine Miss M) saved the day for New York City community gardens yesterday, swooping in at the last minute with personal funds and money from her […]
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Give Me a Home Where the Stealth Bombers Roam
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is trying to stealthily hand over millions of acres of public land to the military permanently, including a southwestern Arizona bombing range that is home to […]
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Riders Thrown
During late-night discussions last night over a massive spending package, congressional negotiators dropped two riders that had angered environmentalists. Alaska Sen. Frank Murkowski’s (R) effort to extend commercial fishing in […]
