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He's the most knowledgeable environmentalist ever to reach such a high office. But is that enough? Vice Presidents Albert Gore may be the first national leader for whom Saturday Night [...]

My friend David, a writer and zealous cyclist, was bitter: I was going on a weeklong mountain-bike trip across southern Utah's remote Kaiparowits Plateau, and he was not. Mutual friends [...]

On the face of it, environmental voters do not have a very difficult choice in this year's residential election. Consumer hero Ralph Nader is running on the Green Party ticket [...]

As the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled the words of Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita: 'I am [...]

Here's a problem for the twilight years of the 20th century: What is left to steal from our children? In the 1980s, we pilfered their financial future by running up [...]

Like a sleeper wave tossing dead fish far up on the shore, last November's electoral tsunami deposited a spectacular collection of stinkers in high places throughout the halls of Capitol [...]

In the blackness of a freezing morning in December 1991, a driver lost control of her car on an isolated road in upstate New York and slammed into an electric-utility [...]

It's remarkable how candidly people talk when they forget you're listening. In the February issue of the trade newsletter O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, the public-relations industry frankly assesses the failure [...]

Like approaching sirens, the wails of corporate executives herald the start of debate on the reauthorization of Superfund, the country's program for cleaning up abandoned toxic-waste dumps. From the op-ed [...]

The problem with U.S. environmental policy these days, the nation's newspaper of record has concluded, is that it spends too darn much to save too few human lives. In an [...]

'Just between you and me,' World Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers wrote to his colleagues late last year, 'shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries [...]

There are more ways to kill a cat,' said the English philosopher J. L. Austin, 'than drowning it in butter.' While most people now realize that burning fossil fuel is [...]

What makes people most nervous about Republican control of Congress? According to a post-election poll, the biggest reservation of 24 percent of respondents was the party's approach to the environment. [...]

Some people apparently don't have enough to worry about. Like Michael Coffman, president of a misleadingly named outfit in Maine called Environmental Perspectives, Inc.: 'There is a well-funded, well-organized plan [...]

Things are heating up all over. In Antarctica, global warming is causing chunks of ice the size of Long Island to break off the continent. In the Republican Party, disputes [...]

The only way members of the 104th Congress could be more accommodating to their corporate sponsors would be to let them sit in their laps and push the voting button. [...]

By law and custom, certain classes of communication in our society are confidential. These include discussions between attorney and client, doctor and patient, cleric and penitent, husband and wife. Now, [...]

As a hostile Congress rushes to judgment on the Endangered Species Act, truth and fairness are as much at risk as condors and manatees. At blatantly stacked 'hearings' held in [...]

It was, perhaps, the data about shrinking penis size that finally got policymakers to seriously consider banning chlorinated chemicals. For the past half century, evidence has been piling up on [...]

Sometimes it's easy to take your best friends for granted. While few white environmentalists would guess it, the best environmental voting record of any interest group in the U.S. Congress [...]

It was the Northern Rockies version of Arafat and shaking hands on the White House steps: an 'ecosystem protection summit' in Missoula, Montana, called last December 5 to broker a [...]

Teetering above the toxic sludge pits and open sewers of the U S./Mexican border, Bill Clinton faces the trickiest balancing act of his high-wire presidency. Believing it will help the [...]

If America's nature lovers want to save the country's natural resources from the ax, suggests Oregon-based forest economist Randal O'Toole, there's a sensible way to do it: open your wallets. [...]

Two years ago, word that the Unocal oil company would pay $700 for any pre-1971 clunker spread across California like a hot tip on the daily double. The idea was [...]

Alaska's governor thinks big--but a wild and pristine state is the last thing on his mind. Remember the good old days--back before environmental impact reports, endangered species acts, and global-warming [...]

In re Supreme Court vs. the Environment Now that the final conflict is over, capitalism triumphant is getting down to business here at home. In the next few months, the [...]

Annoy a dinosaur and it can turn on you. That's what San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network learned after a year of targeting Boise Cascade for 'predatory logging practices' in endangered [...]

AN ENVIRONMENTALIST'S GUIDE TO GASOLINE IN A PERFECT WORLD, WE'D ALL COMMUTE ON ELECTRIC BUSES AND DO OUR ERRANDS by bicycle or on foot. Meanwhile, however, many of us have [...]

Vladimir Putin finds a new class enemy in environmentalism Imagine that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service were abolished, their functions folded into the Commerce Department, and that [...]

Those who thought the abuse of the nation's public forests could not get worse after 1995's disastrous 'Logging Without Laws' salvage timber rider have not yet met the 105th Congress. [...]

He is, says the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 'the lawmaker environmentalists love to hate.' The former leader of the conservative southern Democrats known as the 'Blue Dogs' (he switched parties last [...]

If you had a billion dollars. would you rather save thousands of acres of glorious Alaskan coastal forest from clearcutting, or finance a perpetual bureaucracy? The trustees for the billion [...]

Counterrevolution in the Rockies: The timber industry flexes its muscle. Finally, the reformers go too far. Meeting in secret, hardline defenders of the old order scheme to preserve the discredited [...]

Efficiency Vermont is a new kind of utility. It has no nuclear reactors, no coal-burning plants, no dams, yet in the last three years it's generated nearly 100,000 megawatt-hours in [...]

ANDREA SEASTRAND The spectacular central California coast region suffered a major disaster in 1969 when a catastrophic oil spill spread across the Santa Barbara Channel. In 1994 in inflicted disaster [...]

Most of the anti-environmental zealots spotlighted as 'ecothugs' in this column thus far have objected, claiming that they are, in fact, misunderstood nature lovers. No such quibble is likely to [...]

When Don Young (R-Alaska) went looking for help in dismantling the Endangered Species Act, he passed right by moderate Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), whose subcommittee would normally have handled the matter. [...]

The competition is stiff these days, but the hands-down winner of Sierra's new James Watt Act-Alike contest is James Hansen, Republican representative from Utah. While not as outwardly loopy as [...]

The article offers information related to the oil consumption rate in the U.S. It mentions that the U.S. accounts for 42 percent of all energy related carbon dioxide emissions through burning of petroleum, contributing greatly to future worsening of climate change. It comments that alternatives are already available for most uses of oil, and adopting them will improve our lives along with the slowing of climate change. It highlights several proposed policies in the reduction of carbon emission in different carbon contributors in the U.S. including cars and light trucks, big trucks and buses, and air travel.

Provides insights on the 1996 presidential elections focusing on candidates President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole's agenda concerning the environment. Dole as having the worst environmental voting record; Background on Dole's proposed environmental policies; Assessment of the Clinton Administration's efforts concerning environmental protection.

The article offers environment related news briefs of the U.S. Oysters in the Gulf of Mexico contain high concentrations of heavy metals found in crude oil, even two year after the BP oil spill accident. The 12-month period from May 2011 to April 2012 is the hottest in the U.S. history. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases new rules for the protection of polar bears, but excludes action to control greenhouse gases.

The article presents a letter from the editor regarding the executive director of the "Sierra Club" Carl Pope. The author discusses his career as editor of Pope's column titled "Create," shares his experience of what is was like to edit Pope's writing on U.S. environmental politics, and Pope's role in the expansion of "Sierra's" environmentalism scope.

The article documents news briefs regarding public health and the environment. The 2010 U.S. budget allegedly allocates funds for sex education, but not for abstinence-only programs. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is said to have eliminated funding for cars that use hydrogen-fuel cells. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final ban on the pesticide carbofuran.

This article briefly discusses issues relating to the management of environmental policy. The environmental regulations developed by U.S. President George W. Bush to govern the use of concealed weapons and mountain bikes in National Parks are considered. Changing regulations of organic dairy and farmed fish from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are noted. A decline in the sales of hybrid electric vehicles in contrasted with increases in public transit ridership.

The article presents information on U.S. President George W. Bush delaying decisions on environmental policies till the expiry of his term in January 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks but President Bush has directed the agency to come up with appropriate rules by the end of 2008. Bush proposed further studying the issue of climate change at the June 2007 meeting of the Group of eight nations delaying the agreement till the end of 2008. A court order to improve weak water-quality standards for factory farms has been put off-until February 27, 2009 ostensibly to provide time for the agricultural community to adjust to the new requirements.

The article focuses on issues related to the dissatisfaction among the members of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) due to U.S. President George W. Bush's new standards on gun rights. Ronald Schmeits, NRA vice president, says the government has placed more emphasis on oil and gas than access rights for hunters. The NRA's 4.2 million members increasingly find themselves locked out of prime wildlife areas by the oil and gas industry. Their dissatisfaction has added to the growing opposition against Bush administration's policies on public lands and wildlife.

Reports on the plan of the U.S. administration on the Roadless Area Conservation Rule which protects national forests and grasslands from logging and mining. Percentage of public comments supporting wild national forests.

Focuses on the Energy Policy Act signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush in 1992. Legal case filed by Sierra Club environmental group concerning the administration of the law; Utilization of alternative fuels and regulation on gas consumption; Significance of the law on environment.