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No Fuel Like an Old Fuel
Although rising gas prices in the U.S. have set off a raft of complaints this year and 60 percent of the public say they are worried about energy costs, few Americans have significantly curtailed their driving or begun shopping for fuel-efficient cars. The nation actually is on track to use almost as much gasoline as […]
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Al Talk and No Action
Although most environmental groups have endorsed Al Gore for president, they also complain that he has been too cautious as vice president. He has certainly talked big about the environment and has a great storehouse of policy ideas, but he has tended not to take big political risks that would require citizens to sacrifice for […]
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Sarah Matsumoto, Endangered Species Coalition
Sarah Matsumoto is the GREEN Western Organizer for the Endangered Species Coalition. Based in Albuquerque, N.M., she works to protect wildlife and wildlands across the U.S. and especially in the West. Monday, 9 Oct 2000 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Monday mornings always remind me of a quote by E. B. White that I used to have hanging […]
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The Pacific Grim
Air pollution from factories and power plants in booming Asian cities is blowing across the Pacific to the West Coast of North America, posing threats to human health and wildlife far from the pollution’s original sources, according to a report published last week in the journal Science. Report coauthor Kenneth Wilkening of the University of […]
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The Lesser of Two Weevils?
China is embracing genetically engineered crops more quickly than any other Asian nation, hoping that the technology will help its small farmers grow more low-cost, high-quality crops that can better compete on the world market, now that China is on track to join the World Trade Organization. Since 1997, Beijing has given approval to more […]
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Don't Have a Cow, Man
A cow in Iowa has been implanted with a cloned embryo of an endangered Asian gaur, an ox-like animal native to the jungles of India and Southeast Asia. The experiment marks the first time an endangered species has been cloned, and the first time a cloned animal has gestated in the womb of another species. […]
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Natural Born Whale Killers
Environmentalists are planning to petition the feds later this month to list Pacific Northwest orca whales, also known as killer whales, under the Endangered Species Act. They say that PCB pollution is making the orcas more vulnerable to disease and early death and that devastated salmon runs in the region are hurting the orcas, which […]
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Catch a Poacher By the Toe
A project to protect endangered tigers in Thailand’s Khao Yai national park is arming 28 rangers with M-16s and training them to do everything from setting up remote infrared cameras that record wildlife to disarming poachers. The project, organized by two U.S.-based groups, the World Conservation Society and WildAid, and funded in part by the […]
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You Have the Right to Remain Noisy
Texas officials have tentatively agreed to pay $99,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by environmentalists who were arrested for peacefully protesting on the sidewalk in front of the governor’s mansion, the residence of George W. Bush. The enviros, who were calling on Bush to push for a measure requiring old polluting industrial plants to clean […]
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Shape Up or Ship Out
A toxic pesticide that the U.S. banned in the 1980s, heptachlor, has been found in the wastewater of three cruise ships traveling in Alaska waters. Test results obtained from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation also indicated illegal levels of lead, copper, zinc, and silver in the wastewater that ships dump at sea, called gray […]
