Environmental Issues

Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush

The Bush Administration is pulling a fast one on energy, and we will all pay dearly for decades to come. By panicking the public with oil industry propaganda of an energy shortag...

May 29, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The School That Wasn’t The School That Wasn’t

Fernando Contreras points to the area behind a green mesh fence where his family home used to be. He is about to be a grandfather for the first time.

May 18, 2000 / Feature / Susan Anderson

What Monsanto Knew What Monsanto Knew

In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.

May 11, 2000 / Feature / Nancy Beiles

Cheney Is an Oaf on Conservation Cheney Is an Oaf on Conservation

His considerable portfolio reflects his identity as a Texas oilman and a friend to oil-rich Saudis.

May 8, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Green Foreign Policy A Green Foreign Policy

The power of the market, and of the giant corporations that dominate it, is the overriding political fact of our time.

Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

Cheney Was a Gusher Deal for Halliburton Cheney Was a Gusher Deal for Halliburton

Let's not begrudge Dick Cheney his $36 million income last year. Sure, it dwarfs the puny $744,682 reported by the President, but George W. Bush represents old money, and he know...

Apr 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Heck With That Global Warming Stuff The Heck With That Global Warming Stuff

Time to ease up on George W. So what that he tore up the Kyoto agreement, which had been painstakingly hammered out among 100 nations in an attempt to control global warming. B...

Apr 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Timeline Timeline

8,5000 Years of LEAD... 79 Years of LEADED Gasoline BC:

Mar 2, 2000 / Feature / Jamie Lincoln Kitman

The Secret History of Lead The Secret History of Lead

Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. Follow-ups: "Amplification," June 19, 2000 and letters exchanges: "Lead--Balloons and Bouquets," Ma...

Mar 2, 2000 / Feature / Jamie Lincoln Kitman

The Plutonium Files The Plutonium Files

Eileen Welsome, a mild-mannered 48-year-old reporter laboring away in obscurity for a tiny afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is no one's idea of a media Bigfoot.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

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