The Legacy of Hanford The Legacy of Hanford
Washington continues to evade responsibility for forty-seven years of contamination.
Jul 31, 2003 / Feature / Robert Alvarez
The Enemy Within The Enemy Within
Snoozing guards at Los Alamos, missing vials of plutonium oxide... Yes, the headlines in late June were announcing "security lapses" again at national labs and nuclear weapons ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
A Light in the Fog A Light in the Fog
Seattle is curbing greenhouse gases through more efficient power consumption.
Jun 26, 2003 / Feature / Alec Appelbaum
An Energy/Jobs Program An Energy/Jobs Program
America needs jobs, and working families are hurting. At the same time, the war in Iraq has heightened awareness of our dependence on foreign oil and the vulnerability of our e...
May 22, 2003 / Bracken Hendricks
It’s the Oil, Stupid It’s the Oil, Stupid
On the second day of the invasion of Iraq, US commandos seized two Iraqi offshore oil terminals in the Persian Gulf, capturing their defenders without a fight.
Apr 24, 2003 / Michael T. Klare
Biodiversity and You Biodiversity and You
As the Earth's population surges toward the 7 billion mark, the following twist on an old maxim perhaps best applies: A single birth is a joyous occasion. A billion births is a...
Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
Bush’s Environmental Record Bush’s Environmental Record
3/13/01 Abandons pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. 3/28/01 Rejects Kyoto Protocol.
Jan 16, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now?
Judgment Day is everyday with Mike Davis.
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay
Hydrogen: Empowering the People Hydrogen: Empowering the People
A new source of energy offers a way to wrench power from ever-fewer hands.
Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / Jeremy Rifkin
Blood for Oil Blood for Oil
In May 2001, the White House issued a National Energy Policy report, known as the Cheney Report: the state of our national oil reserves. In 2000, half the oil we consumed was impor...
Oct 10, 2002 / Gore Vidal