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Daschle, Dancer
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (S.D.) last week said he would support dramatic changes in the Kyoto treaty on climate change, including a move away from mandatory to voluntary targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Faced with immediate criticism by environmental groups, however, Daschle on Saturday backed away from his earlier statement and issued […]
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Tijuana Gets Brassy
Environmentalists in Mexico are taking lessons from U.S. greenies and are filing more lawsuits and using right-to-know laws to force government agencies to make public the poor environmental records of some companies. Carla Garcia, an enviro attorney in Tijuana, said, “There is a change in the way things are being done. It’s not just about […]
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Newt Rockme
The environment “has been the most obvious public relations failure” of the Bush administration so far, but the issue offers President Bush one of his best opportunities to truly change the country, writes former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in the New York Times. Bush could chose to “create the most conservative […]
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Survey Says …
Fifty percent of Americans believe that improving the environment should take priority over economic growth, according to a Los Angeles Times poll completed last week. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said protecting plants and animals should trump protection of property rights. Fifty-six percent opposed President Bush’s decision to overturn a rule to reduce arsenic levels in […]
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Rant and Rail
Germany’s first shipment of nuclear waste in three years to a British reprocessing plant arrived quietly in the U.K. yesterday, a sharp contrast to the protests that marked the beginning of its five-day journey. Protesters in Germany succeeded briefly in delaying the shipment, and demonstrators in northern France threw smoke bombs on the rail line […]
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The Environmentalist Currently Known As Prince
Britain’s Prince Philip (you know, the queen’s husband) warned today that the Danube River is on a path toward ecological disaster unless European governments rally to save it. The prince, who is an honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund, said, “Pollution, scouring, and disturbance are slowly killing the natural balance of the whole river […]
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Roslyn Cameron, Charles Darwin Research Station
Roslyn Cameron is public support and outreach coordinator at the Charles Darwin Research Station on the Galapagos Islands. Monday, 30 Apr 2001 ISLA SANTA CRUZ, Galapagos A five-minute ride along the mangrove-lined oceanfront road on my rusty old bike finds me at the Charles Darwin Research Station. After four years, my morning commute still never […]
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Poll Position
Only 38 percent of the American public approves of the way President Bush is handling the environment, according to a poll taken this week by CBS News. More than twice as many Americans place a priority on protecting the environment over producing energy — but the public overwhelmingly thinks Bush is on the side of […]
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The Bonneville Horror
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) on Wednesday said the Bonneville Power Administration and other federal agencies were not fulfilling their obligations to help salmon in the midst of a drought that has caused electricity prices to soar. In recent weeks, the BPA has twice declared power emergencies that allow the agency and the U.S. Army […]
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The Fool on Capitol Hill
Some Labor Party members in the U.K. are publicly deriding U.S. President Bush as the “toxic Texan” and “the fool on Capitol Hill” for his stance on climate change. In fact, the Bush administration, by all reports, has been astonished by the intense reaction around the world to its decision to withdraw from the Kyoto […]
