Environment & Energy

Enterprising hackers looking for a way to loot trade secrets, compromise law enforcement procedures, or assist foreign intelligence agencies in carrying out economic espionage used to have it good. All they had to do was raid the U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced new rules, worked out with the National Corn Growers Association, that would require farmers to plant a 20 percent border of non-Bt corn around the Bt corn acreage they grow.

Nearly every state in the nation has areas that would be made off-limits for road construction or maintenance if the Clinton-Gore administration's "roadless areas" proposal is put into affect. Connecticut--whose Rep.

The Clinton-Gore administration has proposed $42.5 billion in spending on environmental projects as part of the FY2001 budget—an increase of 11 percent over last year, and a 35 percent increase from when they took office in 1993.

The burning of biotechnology offices in Michigan State University’s historic Agriculture Hall on New Year’s Eve; fire set to a home in a new development near Bloomington, Indiana on January 23; and “havoc” wreaked at a University

Citizens’ right to sue upheld On January 12, 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that citizens do have the right to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act. In a 7-2 decision in Friends of the Earth vs.

It used to be said that figures lie and liars figure. No more. Today they become pollsters . . . and the manipulators for whom they work.

The drive to keep the American public out of public lands is picking up speed as the Clinton-Gore administration seeks ways to close off even more than the 60 million-plus acres already classified as roadless (see accompanying chart).

Seven Arizona state lawmakers have joined 16 citizens to sue President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt over the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument recently created by the Clinton-Gore administration in Arizona under the Antiquities Act

Go online. Take a look at www.earthday.net. It’s the home page for Earth Day Network. On Earth Day, April 22, 2000 (my birthday) there will be a huge celebration sponsored by Earth Day Network on the Mall in Washington, DC.

A fierce wind storm that roared across Europe this winter tore down hundreds of “old growth” trees on the grounds of France’s famed Versailles Place.

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.

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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

Late on the night of Wednesday, February 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shut down its public Web site.

At the recent U.N.-sponsored biotechnology meeting in Montreal, delegates from 130 countries approved language for a “biosafety protocol” that would allow countries to stop or restrict imports of genetically modified agricultural products.

Ronald Bailey is an environmental journalist with a commitment to sound science. He is science correspondent for Reason magazine and the author of several books, including: Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse (St.

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

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

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.