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The article focuses on news briefs related to environmental issues including a Chinese energy firm's plan to construct 100 solar farms, Sweden's commitment to carbon neutrality and decline in the sperm count and quality among men in the U.S., Europe and Australia in the last 40 years. It also refers to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

The article presents the author's views on the efforts of Denmark to become free of fossil fuels by 2050. He states that Demnark has pledged commitment to renewable energy in late 1990s and has implemented numerous measures to achieve it. These measures include wide bike lanes that are segregated from parked cars and motorized traffic, wind turbines, requirement for firms to use renewable energy at their factories.

Presents an excerpt from the book "Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress," by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber.

Focuses on the habitation of different states and places visited by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during the 1800s, in line with the territorial expedition program of former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Discussion on ecosystem in South Dakota; Bird species found in Kentucky; Bison and grizzly population found in South Dakota; Details of habitat destruction and environmental protection.

Discusses the prospects for enactment of environmental laws in a Republican-dominated Congress. Absence of a political agenda for environmental protection; Revision and repeal of federal laws on the environment; Philosophy of turnover of environmental authority to states.

Looks at the linkage between money and the United States government's reluctance to support environmental protection measures. Increasing cost of political campaigns; Approaches to reforming the campaign-finance reform identified by Randy Keeler of the Massachusetts-based Working Group on Electoral Democracy; Sierra Club's support for campaign-finance reform.

States that business leaders of today, working with enlightened environmentalists, have discovered a cheaper, more effective and less contentious remedy to just about any environmental ailment. `Free-market environmentalism' which promises to harness the vigor and inventiveness of capitalism to heal the earth; Environmental Defense Fund; Details.

The article provides information on ban proposals by the U.S. President Donald Trump to cut down funding of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Topics discussed include lawsuit filed under Environmental Law Program of Sierra Club; construction of Mexican border wall and environmental regulations; and Freedom of Information Act.

The authors present ten initiatives they believe are needed to reverse the damage caused by the removal of environmental protections under U.S. president George W. Bush. The Bush Administration has banished many of our most important environmental protections to this limbo. The Clean Air Act is still on the books but is not being enforced. What we have not lost is love for the land--the same love that runs in a powerful undercurrent throughout US history. Here are ten steps to reverse the Bush initiatives and transform the nation. 1. Require auto makers to make cars, SUVs and light trucks that go farther on a gallon of gas. 2. Reindustrialize America by creating a twenty-first-century energy industry. 3. Install modern air-pollution control equipment in old power plants, refineries and factories. 4. Restore the Superfund tax. 5. Reinstate the environmental protections enjoyed by our national forests, rivers, wetlands, wildlife habitat and public lands as recently as January 21, 2001. 6. Restore rural America. 7. Retire Smokey Bear. 8. Restore our national patrimony of public lands. 9. Solve the sewage problem. 10. Rejoin the world.

Focuses on misinterpretations of regional approaches to environmental conservation in the United States. Conspiracy theories on building a natural preserve for the world's elite; Effect of international recognition of wild places on conservation policy; Interference of the United Nations with the United States land management policy.

Examines pro-environment movements sponsored by the US Republican Party. Republican-dominated 104th Congress' environmental voting record in the past 25 years; Poll results for the Superfund Reform Coalition; Formation of the Republicans for Environmental Protection; Creation of the Evangelical Environmental Network; Concerns over mining law reform.

Considers efforts to protect the vanishing wildlands of the United States. Pat Williams' (D-Mont.) bill H.R. 2437; H.R. 2638, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and 40 cosponsors that would protect 16 million acres; Its scope; Objections; Results of the `ecosystem protection summit' in Missoula, Montana, December 5, 1993.

The article presents several facts related to environmental protection in the U.S. and Canada as of January 2015. Topics include California's ban on single-use plastic bags and regulation of groundwater, President Barack Obama's designation of Southern California-based San Gabriel Mountains as a National Monument, and the opening of a commercial coal-fired power plant in Saskatchewan.

The article presents news briefs regarding environmentalism. It states that by the increased use of natural gas and renewables combined with energy efficient policies, the carbon dioxide emission has considerably reduced. It mentions that due to costly retrofit, Duke Energy Corp. has shut it Crystal River Unit 3 nuclear plant in Florida, since 2009. It states that to upkeep polar bears in the ice free environment, biologists suggest that they should be fed with supplementaries. It states that nearly 40,000 people participated in a rally in Washington to demand rejection to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project.

The article discusses the need by wind power for industrial operations with undeniable environmental effects in the U.S. It notes that wind power plants must be established away from migratory routes of birds which have occasionally been killed by colliding with facility devices. It mentions that avian impacts from wind projects have been aimed to be lessened by the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative.

The article provides information on the integration of carbon tax as an alternative of the cited result of the sin taxes in the U.S. It stresses that the carbon tax has the simplest application as an opposition to a complicated cap-and-trade system involving emission ceilings and tradable permits as pointed out by Al Gore, Paul Volcker, Thomas Friedman, and bucketloads of economists as an approach for reduction of global warming. Further, Gore stresses that such adoption of the carbon tax accounts for the establishment of an alternative-energy programs and assurance of setting pollution-free business.

The article presents an interview with Dave Foreman, Earth First founder, concerning a proposed rule change by the U.S. Forest Service regarding designated wilderness areas. The new rule will allow hunters into these areas, which he says is a violation of the Wilderness Act. Asked about the wording of the proposed rule, he says it shows ignorance on the part of the Forest Service. He suggests that concerned citizens go directly to their Congress members about wilderness protection.

The article provides some insights into the benefits and limitations of nuclear power resources citing its implications on the fight against global warming. The Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, headed by Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore and former Environmental Protection Agency administration Christine Todd Whitman proposes nuclear power as the solution to climate change. They emphasize that nuclear power plants generate no air pollutants or greenhouse gases and could provide for future energy needs without cramping lifestyles.

The article presents the views of several environmentalists and experts on environmental protection in Great Britain regarding environmental issues. Paul Rauber quotes Dr. Johnson who commented that when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully on the increasing evidence of climate change is having that effect on the ranks of global warming skeptics, whose numbers are melting away like the snows of Kilimanjaro. Representative Bob Inglis, chair of the Research Subcommittee of the Science Committee says he ignored the issue of global warning until his visit to the United States in January 2006.

This article informs that at the February 2005 meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. delegates derailed a European Union call for a binding treaty to curb mercury use, instead pushing through a plan for "voluntary partnerships" between governments, industries, and environmental groups. But in an indication of the likely practical dynamies of such partnerships, the United States refused to let environmental advocates address the conference. UNEP rules state that nongovernmental organizations participate only at the pleasure of the governments--and the United States wasn't pleased.

Reports on the termination of a proposal of some Republicans in the Massachusetts legislature to sell naming rights of state parks to companies in the U.S. in June 2003. Reason behind the proposal; Role of Sierra Club in the termination of the proposal; Issue pointed out by opponents of the proposal.

Provides information on various projects on environmental and energy conservation in the U.S. as of September 2003. Medicines for Nepal trekking project by Janice Belson; Study on the feasibility of harnessing the tides rushing through the Golden Gate in San Francisco, California; Objective of Efficiency Vermont utility.