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Didn't They Ever Read the Cherry Orchard?

Russian enviros are concerned that President Vladimir Putin is sacrificing environmental protection in pursuit of economic growth. Their biggest complaint is that Putin transferred the powers of the State Committee on Environmental Protection, the country’s equivalent of the U.S. EPA, to the Ministry of Natural Resources, whose role up to now has been to authorize […]

Lactose Tolerant

Stonyfield Farm Inc., a New Hampshire-based yogurt company, is launching a new national print ad campaign that aims to promote environmental and social causes as well as its own cultured dairy products. Gary Hirschberg, president and chief executive of Stonyfield Farm, calls the campaign concept “ad-tivism,” a combination of advertising and activism. The new ads […]

Arsenal and Old Laws

The U.S. government’s reliance in the 1940s and 1950s on a large network of private plants, mills, and shops to build the country’s first nuclear arsenal led to huge environmental problems and major health consequences, concludes a USA Today investigation. The government knew that the hundreds of contractors were ill-prepared for the hazards of handling […]

Kelpie Wilson, Siskiyou Regional Education Project

Kelpie Wilson is executive director of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots network formed to protect the wild forests and rivers of the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion in northwest California and southwest Oregon. Tuesday, 5 Sep 2000 CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. Well, Grist readers, you have caught me, and the Siskiyou Project, right in the midst of […]

Fighting for Poor, Oppressed Oil Conglomerates Everywhere

Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced on Friday that as president he would “empower” oil producers and welcome offshore oil and gas development off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. He says more drilling is needed in the U.S. to decrease dependence on foreign oil. Al Gore, for his part, has promised to clamp down […]

Judge Dread

A federal judge who has been presiding over a case filed against Texaco by Indians in Ecuador has a potential conflict of interest, say lawyers for the plaintiffs, who filed a motion on Friday requesting that the judge recuse himself. The suit was filed in 1993 on behalf of thousands of Ecuadoreans who say Texaco’s […]

Think How Many Episodes of "Survivor" That Is

Raising fuel-efficiency standards for SUVs would be of more help in the fight against global warming than reducing power plant emissions or increasing energy efficiency in homes and offices, says the Sierra Club. The group launched a nationwide campaign over the weekend to draw attention to what it says are the evils of SUVs, such […]

Reality Bites

Linda Harrar is an independent filmmaker, based in Boston but usually traveling the world producing documentaries for NOVA and other PBS programs. Through the lens of the camera, she sees a lot. In the editing room she sees it over and over. It sinks in deep. So she had a strong reaction to the CBS […]

God Forbid!

Enviros in India are calling for a change to a Hindu tradition that results in dramatic annual fish kills. Each year, at the end of a 10-day festival in Bombay for the Hindu god Ganesh, tens of thousands of painted statues of the elephant-headed deity are thrown into lakes, waterways, and the Arabian Sea. “Within […]

Foes No More

Friends of the Earth (FoE), which endorsed Bill Bradley in the Democratic primary and had hinted that it might support Green candidate Ralph Nader in the general election, is officially endorsing Al Gore today. FoE President Brent Blackwelder said the group agonized over the decision because it has been disappointed in the Clinton-Gore administration and […]