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How Crude

The world’s largest oil rig sank off the coast of Brazil today, and workers for the state oil company Petrobras are racing to prevent oil from spilling into the sea. Some 400,000 gallons of crude oil and diesel were stored on the rig or in nearby pipelines, and a company spokesperson said ships were standing […]

Soft Woods, Hard Heads

An environmental dispute between the U.S. and Canada is coming to a head, with a lumber trade agreement between the two countries set to expire at the end of the month. Enviros and many U.S. policymakers say the Canadian government unfairly subsidizes the logging of old-growth timber, undercutting the market for wood in the U.S., […]

At-risk Kids

A growing number of schools in the U.S. are being built on abandoned dumps or too close to polluting factories, placing children’s health at risk, according to a report released today by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. The report focuses on case studies of 15 schools built on risky sites, in cities ranging […]

The Question Is, Is Our Roads Building?

The Bush administration indicated on Friday that it is looking for ways to roll back rules approved by the Clinton administration to ban road-building and logging on a third of the country’s national forests. In one of his first acts in office, President Bush put off the date the rules would come into effect until […]

The Spruce Goose

In a rare success story, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton is announcing today that the Aleutian Canada goose, once thought to be extinct, has recovered and no longer needs to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The goose population has grown from only hundreds in the late-1960s to 37,000 today. Norton attributes the recovery […]

Delta Dawn, What's That Oil Spill You've Got on

The Niger River Delta — 42,000 square miles of wetland that is home to 7 million Nigerians — has been ravaged by five multinational oil companies extracting 2 million barrels of crude oil per day from the area. From 1986 to 1996, oil spills equal to 10 Exxon Valdez disasters fouled rivers and jungles in […]

Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day

Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Monday, 19 Mar 2001 PARIS, France On 19 Apr., Earth Car Free Day 2001 is going to take another whack at the catastrophic problems behind global warming. And this time, it is quite possible […]

The Customer is Always Right

Kenya Believe This?

A court in Kenya granted environmentalists an injunction yesterday to prevent the government from clearing 167,000 acres of forestland around Mount Kenya. The decision will allow time for the enviros to file a formal case against the minister of environment. Yesterday, the enviros presented a petition to the minister signed by more than 28,000 people […]

A Left Bank

France’s Green Party is expected to play a major role in what political analysts say will be a victory for the Socialist candidate in the race for mayor of Paris this Sunday. Taking lessons from the German Green Party, the French Greens in recent years have dropped their former hippie image to curry favor with […]