Environmental Issues

The Right in the Classroom The Right in the Classroom

Right-wing climate-change deniers worked hand-in-glove with John Stossel to portray schoolchild as being 'scared green' on a recent ABC special.

Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Marianne Manilov

War Without End War Without End

Allied 'surgical strikes' in Kosovo in 1999 created environmental hotspots yet to cleaned up; the same might happen in Afghanistan.

Dec 2, 2001 / Feature / A.C. Thompson

Bush & Global Warming Bush & Global Warming

It's time for the United States to show as much commitment in the battle against global warming as it does in the "war on terror."

Nov 21, 2001 / Mark Hertsgaard

Hot Air Is Bad for Us Hot Air Is Bad for Us

The current uproar over the posture of the Bush Administration on global warming and, most recently, on power-plant emissions vividly illustrates the political hypocrisy an...

Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Bio-Piracy in Chiapas Bio-Piracy in Chiapas

Mexico's Zapatista community is protesting the commercial exploitation of the country's ecological riches.

Aug 9, 2001 / Bill Weinberg

San Diego Sees the Light San Diego Sees the Light

A Democratic Congressman relates what happened when a large California city rebelled against privatization of its electricity.

Aug 9, 2001 / Bob Filner

For Utilities the Fix Is In For Utilities the Fix Is In

For years, environmental advocates in and out of government have labored to construct a connecting arch between opposing interests that could lead to the first real legislative ac...

Jul 12, 2001 / William Greider

Energy Imperialism Energy Imperialism

The potential domestic consequences of the Administration's national energy policy--opening up protected areas to drilling, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, building more nucl...

Jul 12, 2001 / Michael T. Klare

Springtime for Nuclear Springtime for Nuclear

Forget Three Mile Island! The buzzword now is "environmentally preferable."

Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Bill Mesler

The People’s Power The People’s Power

Act I We're on the edge of the twentieth century and Mayor James Phelan of San Francisco concludes that without abundant water and electrical power San Francisco is stymie...

Jun 28, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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