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Litter Bugs Them

Most Hong Kong residents want their government to do a better job tackling environmental problems, according to a survey released over the weekend by Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank. More than 60 percent of the 960 respondents said issues such as pesticides in foods, contaminated seafood, and air and water pollution should be […]

Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water

Alayne Blickle, a life-long equestrian, is creator and program director of Horses for Clean Water, a program that promotes environmentally sensitive horse-keeping by offering education on manure management, mud reduction, pasture improvements, and eco-friendly horse facilities. Monday, 10 Dec 2001 MAPLE VALLEY, Wash. I’m up before dawn, as it’ll be a big day here on […]

Gwich'in to Drill?

Some tribes and lawmakers are criticizing environmental groups for continuing to represent Native Americans in a simplistic, self-serving way as model caretakers of the Earth. David Lester, a Creek Indian and executive director of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, says, “Environmentalists are using the Indians the way the French and English used Indians in […]

What Recession?

What’s with all the talk about national energy security and a recession? American consumers aren’t listening to the worrywarts — they’re out there doing their patriotic duty, lining up to buy SUVs at a record clip. Sales in November were up 13.7 percent last month from the year before. In fact, so far this year, […]

Suit Up

Two environmental groups launched the first legal assault on the Bush administration’s energy policy, suing to overturn last September’s sale of 12 new oil and gas leases by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in southern Utah. The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance claim that BLM officials violated the National […]

Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit

Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. […]

Lost at Sea

In the midst of an expedition to document the impact of global warming and pollution on the Amazon Basin, America’s Cup champion Sir Peter Blake was shot and killed yesterday, when pirates boarded his research boat at the mouth of the Amazon River. Blake, a 53-year-old native of Auckland, New Zealand, won the yacht race […]

Bad Air Day

As if flying didn’t already make you nervous: Air quality aboard commercial jets can be hazardous to passenger’s health and the airlines, but federal regulators have done little to address the problem, according to a report released yesterday by a panel of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The report said the systems for collecting […]

Tricks of the Trade

In a blow to environmentalists and unions, Republicans in the U.S. House pushed through a plan yesterday to give President Bush broad authority to negotiate trade agreements. The bill, which was approved by a single vote, would take away from Congress the power to amend trade deals brokered by the administration; lawmakers could merely vote […]

Nuclear and Present Danger?

With allies in the White House and energy issues on everybody’s mind, the nuclear power industry was on something of a roll this summer. Now, the momentum has shifted. David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said, "Sept. 11 has been the biggest challenge to nuclear power since Chernobyl." Elected and […]