A look back at Al Gore's 1992 opus on the environment

How many environmentalists have actually read Earth in the Balance? Very few, I'm willing to wager.

The truth is that until recently, I myself felt qualified to pontificate on Al Gore's environmental beliefs and, yes, occasionally question whether he'd lived up to them, even though I hadn't read more than a few excerpts from the book. Well, that age of innocence is over.

Should we be fluoridating our drinking water?

Back when I was a chemistry major, my professors told me in no uncertain terms that water fluoridation is a...

Development runs wild in the upper Midwest

In an arm-wrestling contest, you’d probably pick Paul Bunyan over John Lawlis. Bunyan, after all, wielded his mighty ax with...

Compassionate Conservationist?

GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush yesterday proposed $2.3 billion in new spending and tax credits over five years to...

How Ballard is leading the charge to spread fuel cells far and wide

"Our long-term goal is very simple," said California Gov. Gray Davis (D) outside the state capitol in Sacramento in April 1999. "Zero emissions in the air. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Zip." A crowd had gathered to hear Davis announce a major new state initiative, and to see the latest non-polluting automobiles to be unveiled by DaimlerChrysler and Ford. Running on electricity, the peppy performance of these cars dazzled the spectators. The two auto giants promised to have them in commercial production around 2003 or 2004. A new era of environmentally friendly transportation had begun.

Amy Souers, American Rivers

Amy Souers is online editor for American Rivers in Washington, D.C. She is on a two-month cross-country road trip exploring...

A conservative argument for Clinton's forest initiative

Ed Marston, publisher of High Country News, proclaims in his paper’s April 10, 2000 issue: “The war between extractive interests...

Look on Seabright Side

Jeff Seabright, executive director of the White House Task Force on Climate Change, is bailing out in the waning days...

Can We Measure Sustainability?

Every year at the peak of the Alpine ski season, the world’s movers and shakers, the heads of the largest...