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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 [...]

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 [...]

Let's say you're in court. The judge walks in; all rise. The opposing attorney approaches the bench and hands his honor a fat wad of bills. The judge stuffs them [...]

Wise Use cowboys try to rewrite the Constitution. Since frontier days, the business of local government in the rural West has been resource extraction. County governments were--and to a large [...]

'Science should never be adjusted to fit policy' was the prim credo of the eminent Expert Panel on the Role of Science, convened last year by EPA Administrator William Reilly [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

An upstart party pitches camp on the Demos' front lawn. For the past 30 years, environmentalist voters have had little choice but to hitch their fortunes to the Democratic Party. [...]

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 [...]

DESPITE WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR, turmoil in the Middle East, and energy crises at home, missing from the national dialogue has been talk of 'conservation,' let alone personal sacrifice. [...]

Among many new terrors revealed last September 11 as the precariousness of our energy system. With worst-case scenarios being surpassed by reality, nuclear power plants and giant hydroelectric dams suddenly [...]

The purpose of the U.S. Circuit Court system is to provide uniform interpretation of federal law for every region of the country. since the nine western state in the Ninth [...]

'Doubtless God could have made a better berry,' 16th-century essayist William Butler said of the strawberry, 'but doubtless God never did.' That has not stopped modern industrial agriculture from trying [...]

Farmers face a bumper crop of troubles. Family farms continue to be squeezed out by agribusiness. The chemical 'inputs' recommended by county agricultural-extension agents have poisoned the groundwater, and officially [...]

It didn't take long for freelance photographer Subhankar Banerjee to go from the top of the world to the basement. This spring, the Smithsonian Institution was about to open a [...]

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 [...]

In November 1988 Oakland, California, voters passed the toughest nuclear free zone initiative in the nation by a 57-to-43 percent vote, putting themselves on a collision course with the federal [...]