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Day of Antiquity
A federal judge yesterday upheld former President Clinton’s designation of six national monuments in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, dashing the hopes of the Denver-based Mountain States Legal Defense Fund. The conservative group challenged the constitutionality of the 1906 Antiquities Act, which gives the president the power to designate monuments, and argued that Clinton had […]
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SUV in the Ditch
Ford has ditched plans to use a form of gas-electric hybrid technology to significantly improve the fuel-efficiency of the Explorer, the world’s best-selling SUV. Ford insiders said the decision was made because of a cash shortage and less success than expected with the “integrated starter-generator” technology, which would have saved gas when the vehicle was […]
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Back in Black
Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in […]
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Soothing the Savage Breasts
We’ve been derelict in our duties: Only now are we telling you that the largest known environmental striptease in the history of the world took place last Friday. Nine bare-breasted women briefly halted logging near Northern California’s Headwaters Forest, at a stand of second-growth redwood trees that didn’t make it into the 1999 forest protection […]
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Round, Round, Get Around, I Get a Round
The latest round of World Trade Organization negotiations concluded yesterday with delegates from 142 nations agreeing to an agenda for the next round of trade talks and glossing over environmental disagreements for the moment. The agenda, which includes cutting tariffs on industrial goods, phasing out farm subsidies, reducing foreign investment barriers, and limiting anti-dumping laws, […]
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You're Not Doing Fine Oklahoma
Demonstrators paraded around the annual Governor’s Water Conference in Oklahoma City yesterday to protest a deal struck behind closed doors to sell millions of gallons of water from southeastern Oklahoma to drought-stricken Texas. The deal, which is subject to approval by the Oklahoma legislature, has the backing of state officials and the Chickasaw and Choctaw […]
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Oil in a Day's Work
Capitol Hill hosted competing demonstrations yesterday over proposed oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Unions reps, black and Latino business leaders, Orthodox Jews, industry bigwigs, and war veterans gathered on the Capitol lawn in Washington, D.C., to hear U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) argue that drilling in the refuge would be […]
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Trunk Driving
A plan to save one of the last remaining wild herds of elephants in Vietnam got off to an inauspicious start earlier this week, with the deaths of two elephants. A team of elephant experts spotted the two on Monday and shot them with tranquilizer darts, hoping to sedate them for the long trip from […]
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Start Spreading the News
Finally, some good news for New York: The Big Apple beat out 49 other U.S. cities in a Sierra Club analysis of spending on mass transit and programs to reduce vehicle-generated smog. According to the group’s air pollution report card issued yesterday, New York is the only big city in the country to spend more […]
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Polar Opposition
Last month, the leader of an Eskimo village in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service claiming that the Alaska Wilderness League, which works to prevent oil drilling in the refuge, misrepresented itself to obtain nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax status. The complaint alleges that the AWL is a lobbying group […]
