Environmental Issues

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

Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson? Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson?

Unwilling to pay for a PCB cleanup, it argues that nature can do the job.

May 10, 2001 / Feature / Richard Pollak

Bush Unites the Enviros Bush Unites the Enviros

In early April an alert was sent out by a longtime oceans activist worried that the Bush Administration was about to reverse a program to establish marine protected areas. A numbe...

Apr 19, 2001 / David Helvarg

Bush Vs. Green Bush Vs. Green

Barbara Kingsolver, renowned author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, wrote this call-to-action against the profound threats the new administration poses to

Apr 15, 2001 / Barbara Kingsolver

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