Environment & Energy

In 1988, Peggy Ann Buckley and her husband purchased a 2.75 acre parcel of property in Malibu, California to build a house.

“No one should pretend that food labeling claiming a product is GM-free can be reliable, since the current variation in results between laboratory tests on GM foods is too wide,” said Dr.

While the leading Presidential candidates haven’t said a great deal about their positions on such key environment issues as global warming and private property protections, the early primaries and caucuses have forced them to tip their hands at least a

Are those who forget history doomed to repeat it? In the case of Texas Governor George W. Bush, the answer would appear to be yes.

The embattled Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 1999 (H.R. 701/S. 25) will have a rougher road to travel on its way through the legislative process than its supporters expected.

“If the Clinton Administration has its way, many of our state’s public trust lands could be severely devalued--which directly affects the foundation for school funding in our state,” said Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne, announcing that

A declaration supporting agricultural biotechnology and signed by over 600 scientists from around the world was released January 22 at a press briefing in Montreal. The briefing, sponsored by International Consumers for Civil Society, featured Dr. C.S.

For the third time in less than a year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has had one of its air-quality regulations rejected by the District of Columbia Federal Appeals Court.

In what western lawmakers called “a war on the West,” the Clinton-Gore Administration bypassed Congress and unilaterally declared three new national monuments and added acreage to a fourth, restricting public use on over a million acres of

The Coalition for Auto Repair Equality (CARE), representing companies in the automotive parts, repair, and maintenance industries, has challenged as “unproven” a car/truck scrappage program proposed by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation

Scientists and medical researchers are raising concerns that municipal sludge spread on farm fields across the U.S. may be responsible for illnesses and even deaths.

Four western Congressmen have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether members of Congress can sue the Clinton-Gore Administration for violating the Constitution. The petition to review was filed on December 2.

The U.S. Forest Service is required to provide a comment period for citizens to respond to its Notice of Intent to prevent use of 40 million acres of roadless areas in National Forests.

In December 1999, the nation "celebrated" the nineteenth birthday of one of the most ill-conceived environmental laws on the books--Superfund.

Five years ago, a senior executive of a major trade association in Washington D.C.

Teddy Roosevelt, who became the nation’s 26th president following the assassination of William McKinley, has long been lionized as the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill.

Radical anti-civilization environmentalists at the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) have claimed credit for setting a fire that destroyed the regional headquarters of Boise Cascade timber company in Monmouth, Oregon on Christmas morning, 1999.

According to Science News, wood harvested from trees that have been genetically engineered could make paper less costly and more environmentally friendly to produce. Vincent L.

From today’s cheese to tomorrow’s cures, biotechnology is supplying new answers to old problems.

“With an impressive-sounding name for your environmental organization, you can scare people out of a lot of money,” wrote columnist Paul Harvey in 1996.

An attempt to place U.S. mining under international control, made by the World Heritage Committee (WHC) in Marrakesh, Morocco in December, was soundly rejected by the U.S. State Department. The department’s strong stand for U.S.

“Who plays God in the 21st century?” is the rhetorical title of a recent full-page advertisement in The New York Times attacking genetic engineering.

Since 1989, Jim Wickstra has been fighting the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to get compensation for their refusal to allow him to build a house on property he owns in Michigan's Muskegon County.

Pundits, publications, and people on the street have all been, in one way or another, reviewing the last millennium. What concerns me is where environmentalists want the world to go in the new millennium: back to the future.