Environmental Issues

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

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

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

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

Nuclear Danger Zone, NC Nuclear Danger Zone, NC

Despite local outrage, Feds approve an expansion of toxic waste storage.

Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / David Potorti

Bush’s New Gas Guzzler Bush’s New Gas Guzzler

George W. Bush's energy plan fudges the facts, raises false alarms, shamelessly peddles halfhearted green measures--all to provide a cover under which to slide the oil industry's ...

May 25, 2001 / The Editors

Dioxin: Studied to Death Dioxin: Studied to Death

Industry has been doing all it can to keep an EPA report from being published.

May 10, 2001 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

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