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The article examines the systemic racism against Black Americans by police officers in terms of traffic enforcement in the U.S. It presents studies which conclude that Black Americans face more than twice than whites of racial discrimination, threat or use of physical force, and minor traffic violations can be deadly. It suggests to de-escalation or remove police from traffic enforcement, hire more people of colors, and hold them accountable of their actions.

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 [...]

In this article the author talks about the U.S citizens are routinely denied an opportunity to vote for a great many reasons, and they don't have the right form of ID, their registration has lapsed, and signatures don't match exactly, have not done time in prison but haven't paid all their fines, and their African American/Latino/Asian-sounding name was purged from the voter rolls.

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. [...]

Now that the 20th century is on its way out, maybe us cityfolk can get back to normal. For urban dwellers prior to this screwy century, 'normal' meant that most [...]

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 [...]

Oysters are hard-core--or, rather, hard-shell--environmentalists, obdurate in their demand for healthy, pollution-free living conditions. They are, in fact, constitutionally incapable of compromise; if bivalves had environmental slogans, theirs would be [...]

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 [...]

Let's face it: organic produce is not made to be sold in supermarkets. Stacked up next to the perfectly uniform ranks of bioengineered, pesticide-protected, factory-farm produce, it often looks small, [...]

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 [...]

It took David Long's south-central Wisconsin neighbors a long time to get used to looking at his bottomland and seeing trees and native grasses, because for as long as anyone [...]

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 [...]

Corporate raider Charles Hurwitz didn't get to be the multi-zillionaire bad boy of Wall Street through lack of chutzpah. Even though the belly flop of his Texas savings and loan [...]

Every noble attempt to formulate a rational, environmentally sound transportation policy eventually runs over the same skunk: in most suburban areas and in many cities, nothing seems as cheap and [...]

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 [...]

As taxpayers tighten their belts and join in mutual sacrifice to reduce the federal deficit, the United States Forest Service is writing multimillion-dollar checks to two large pulp mills in [...]

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. [...]

Sinners, awake! 'We are being deluged by wave after wave of terrible atheistic errors in our schools,' Robert Simonds of Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE) warns the faithful. 'Satan [...]

Where most of us see wilderness, the BLM sees a highway. The Moab Jeep Trail in Utah is in danger of becoming a memory,' warns the newsletter of the Sahara [...]

The art on this page is not meant to prevent forest fires. So sue us. The people call Smokey Bear.' An excited murmur ripples through the courtroom. Slowly, a hirsute [...]

The Cree Indians of northern Quebec call it nimass aksiwin, 'fish disease': numbness in the extremities, unsteady gait, blurred vision, and slurred speech. In the Great Lakes states, fishing guides [...]

This year the U.S. has discovered a new hazard in need of immediate cleanup: 'that mess in Congress.' Polls show that fully half the population believes Congress to be corrupt, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Save a tortoise, go to jail? Using government ethics codes to silence whistleblowers. You don't survive as a species for millions of years by being too adventurous. A desert tortoise [...]

In the 1962 science-fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire, nuclear tests send the planet hurtling toward the sun. The resultant global warming puts a quick end to the [...]

Meeting in a closed room in Geneva last June, three unelected trade experts from Hungary, Switzerland, and Uruguay conspired to kill Flipper. The conclave was a dispute-resolution panel of GATT, [...]

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Biologists have a term for species whose habitats or gene pools are so diminished that extinction is only a matter of time: 'the living dead.' The Bush Administration has banished [...]

The article offers environmental news briefs worldwide. A school groundskeeper with non-Hodgkin lymphoma was compensated in San Francisco, California after the disease was identified to be caused by the Roundup herbicide from agrochemical firm Monsanto Co. A restaurant in Mexico City has failed to serve tarantula tacos due to the protection of red rump tarantula. Transit authorities are required to provider deodorants to subway passengers in Vienna, Austria due to high temperature.

Thousands of Americans face the choice of eating contaminated fish or not eating at all. It's a soft spring twilight by the edge of Lake Superior at the far northern [...]

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 [...]

While British Columbia's coastal forests gain protection, virgin old-growth in its vast interior is mowed down for the U.S. market. The powerful westerly that blew down from the, icy summits [...]

The civilized approach to conservation There is no word in Italian for "wilderness." Dictionaries suggest selva, "forest," or deserto, "desert," but both fall short of the mark. Nor does natura […]