Environmental Issues

Department of Earth Security Department of Earth Security

The EPA cites chapter, and some verse, To show this warming's making matters worse. It's getting worse no matter how you score it. So here's the plan: They think we should ign...

Jun 13, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Trouble on the Farm Trouble on the Farm

Scum and foam were piled so high on the surface of streams and ponds in the rural Illinois area neighboring the Inwood Dairy that it looked like snow.

Jun 5, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz

Lights Out on Bush’s Excuses Lights Out on Bush’s Excuses

Now that the Enron culprits have been caught red-handed, might not the media inquire of the President whether he takes any responsibility for nearly bankrupting California by ref...

May 15, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs

(Sung to the tune of "The Farmer and the Cowman" from Oklahoma!) The Saudis and their oil rigs are our friends. Oh, the Saudis and their oil rigs are our friends. They...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

U.S. Oil Politics in the ‘Kuwait of Africa’ U.S. Oil Politics in the ‘Kuwait of Africa’

The Bush Administration, urged by the oil industry, has embraced a corrupt regime.

Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Ken Silverstein

Fighting for America’s Energy Independence Fighting for America’s Energy Independence

Renewables are coming on strong, despite fat subsidies for oil and coal.

Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Matt Bivens

Enron: What Dick Cheney Knew Enron: What Dick Cheney Knew

A probe of the company's White House ties should begin at his door.

Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols

Bush’s Enron Deal Bush’s Enron Deal

Did George W. Bush once have a financial relationship with Enron? In 1986, according to a publicly available record, the two drilled for oil together--at a time when Bush was a n...

Mar 7, 2002 / David Corn

Tree-Huggers No Longer! Tree-Huggers No Longer!

It's official now: The United States has a policy on climate change. President Bush announced it on Valentine's Day at a government climate and oceans research center. "My approa...

Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Frank Ackerman

Bush’s Other War Bush’s Other War

Questions about Enron's links to the White House and Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force are reassuring. They mean that the nation, after the September 11 attacks, is now confident e...

Jan 24, 2002 / David Helvarg

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