Opinion
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Interior grows impatient with park pollution efforts
Opinion -In an August 22 letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, an official at the Department of Interior asked EPA to develop new regulations designed specifically to protect air quality in the National Park System. -
Improving public access to existing public lands
Opinion -As Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia, I was presented with many opportunities to guide government policies. Some of those opportunities proved to be difficult challenges, while others were easy decisions to make. -
The National Biological Service and Weasels
Opinion -“The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) was a charter member of endangered species lists for North America long before the passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,” wrote Dean Biggins and Jerry Godbey for the National Biological Service’s 1995 -
How Virginia beat EPA
Opinion -Those who would limit the power of the federal government often presume the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is too popular, too large, and too effective at public outreach and media manipulation to attack directly. -
Albert Gore and Straw Men
Opinion -Do you know anyone who argues there is a trade off between our economy and environment? Do you know anyone who believes dirty power plants are inevitable and we should accept them? -
The suburbs are still misunderstood
Opinion -Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York, NY: North Point Press, 2000), 290 pp., $30. -
EPA retreats; media hardly notices
Opinion -Despite devoting thousands of page one headlines and countless feature stories to “soaring gasoline prices” and Clinton-Gore administration claims of price gouging by oil companies, the nation’s print media paid scant attention to -
Cold warriors never die, they just turn green
Opinion -In a February interview with Environment & Climate News, Dr. Walter E. -
The executive branch: the blind eye of power
Opinion -Why is everybody always picking on the Clinton-Gore administration for its environment policy? 1. It is the only administration we have at the present time. 2. -
Summer Reading Guide
Opinion -A Guide to Smart Growth : Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions by Jane S. Shaw and Ronald D. Utt The Heritage Foundation * April 21, 2000 * 16 pp. Amazon.com price $12. -
Funding phantom forts
Opinion -The Northwest Territory of the Great Lakes National Heritage Area Act of 1999, introduced in Congress last year by Rep. -
Outperforming EPA
Opinion -Contrary to popular opinion, America's focus on solving environment problems originated at the state and local level, not in Washington. -
Recommended Books on Free-Market Environmentalism
Opinion -Top Picks Six books, two of them brand new and three dating back as far as 1993, deliver a complete overview of environment issues from a sound science, market-based perspective. -
Making more monuments
Opinion -President Clinton is in the midst of a major push to name national monuments during his final year in office. -
Boys Camp jeopardized by new monument
Opinion -“Our right to have a voice and take part in the decision making process is being completely circumvented,” despaired Rocky Leitzell, executive director of the R.M. -
Brownfields can turn companies green
Opinion -Scores of articles, conferences, environmentalists, politicians, and pundits have proclaimed that redevelopment of environmentally impaired property validates the notion that environmental enhancement and economic progress are compatible. -
The Lesson of Los Alamos
Opinion -The fires sweeping across Los Alamos, New Mexico are tragic and prophetic. Hundreds of firefighters, bulldozers, and airplanes are battling the blaze. -
No Mandatory Food Labeling . . . Yet
Opinion -New regulations issued by the Clinton-Gore administration would require biotechnology companies to notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) four months in advance of marketing a new genetically modified food. -
Corporate America responds to biotech
Opinion -McDonald’s Corporation recently notified its largest potato processor, Idaho’s J.R. Simplot Co., that the fast-food company would no longer accept genetically modified potatoes for its french fries. -
Details, details: Who gets to do what in a wilderness area?
Opinion -Should BLM lands be inventoried? -
Congress approves billions to buy land
Opinion -As thousands of acres of federally owned land in New Mexico burned out of control, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and 314 of his colleagues in Congress passed legislation aimed at putting even more private land in the hands of the federal government. -
Donny, we hardly knew ye
Opinion -As a child growing up in a big Irish family, I attended many a wake. Without fail, someone would comment of the dearly departed--call him Danny--“Danny, we hardly knew ye. -
Dear Carl
Opinion -To: Carl Pope Executive Director Sierra Club Dear Carl: Sorry to bother you. -
Toxic Release Inventory Data Issued
Opinion -EPA released its 1998 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data May 11, 2000.