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Another Contaminated New Jersey
German retailers pulled Nike soccer jerseys from store shelves yesterday because of a televised report that the shirts contained a potentially harmful fungicide. On Tuesday, a business news show reported that it had tested randomly chosen consumer products for traces of chemicals and found that souvenir jerseys made by Nike contained tributyltin, which is used […]
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Hoisin Charge Here?
China has decided to press forward with a huge project to transport water over a great distance from the south of the country to the north. The plan, originally conceived by Mao Zedong, would probably require an engineering effort similar in magnitude to the one now underway for the country’s Three Gorges Dam, which is […]
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Smog Gonnit
Mexico City’s air was cleaner last year than at any previous time in the 1990s as a result of stricter enforcement of pollution laws, according to a government study. Authorities took emergency measures like keeping kids inside during recess only five days last year, compared with 37 days in 1998 and 62 days in 1990, […]
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Global Climate Coalition Benz Over
Saying there may be evidence of global warming, DaimlerChrysler withdrew yesterday from the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group that argues against the reality of climate change. Still, DaimlerChrysler — like Ford, which withdrew from the coalition last month — said it will continue to oppose the Kyoto climate change treaty, which would require industrialized […]
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Frog and Toad Are Dead
Fertilizer levels that the EPA says are safe for drinking water can kill some species of frogs and toads, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Oregon State University researchers were surprised to find that some tadpoles and young frogs raised in water with low levels of nitrates typical […]
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Al Gore Suffers From Weak Spine
Democratic presidential rivals Al Gore and Bill Bradley had a little spat last night over logging in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire and Maine. Speaking at a New Hampshire debate, Bradley criticized the Clinton administration’s plan to limit logging in roadless areas of national forests because it would put some of the […]
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Fish Rap
A 1995 deal between Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Defense Secretary William Cohen, who was at the time a Republican senator from Maine, helped to keep Atlantic salmon off the endangered species list, according to internal agency memos recently unearthed. In early 1995, Cohen, a moderate, sent a letter to Babbitt threatening to join his […]
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More Power to 'Em
Electricity deregulation is giving a boost to clean energy in Pennsylvania — about a third of state residents who have chosen a new electricity supplier since the market opened have switched to renewable energy, according to officials at Conectiv Energy, which operates windmills in the state. Demand for wind energy has exceeded the company’s supply, […]
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn's Trash
The massive Fresh Kills landfill, where New York City has dumped its garbage for 60 years, will be shut down two years from now, and city officials are already daydreaming about making the land into a large city park. The city’s sanitation department has hired Steven Handel, a plant ecologist at Rutgers University, to study […]
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Sleazy Money
Each of the leading presidential contenders has done favors for campaign contributors, often compromising the environment in the process, according to a new report conducted by the Center for Public Integrity. Bill Bradley has drawn hefty campaign contributions from the chemical industry and introduced numerous bills that eliminate tariffs on certain highly toxic pesticides, the […]
