Environment & Energy

Recent studies in Denver, Dallas, and other cities show rail transit is a particularly ineffective solution to air pollution problems.

Industrial pollution in New Jersey dropped 58 percent between 1994 and 2001, even as businesses used 8 percent more hazardous substances, according to a state report released on June 10.

A study released June 16 by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between very small particulate matter (PM) in our air and cardiovascular-respiratory human health.

After six years of Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations and restrictions that have cost builders, local governments, and landowners on the western fringe of the Great Plains as much as $100 million by some estimates, new research suggests the

"The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has given wildlife very little to cheer about," said Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), chairman of the House Resources Committee, at a June 7 hearing in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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The April 4 cover of New York Times Magazine proclaimed, "Up in Smoke: The Bush Administration, the Big Power Companies and the Undoing of 30 Years of Clean Air Policy." Inside, a 13-page article claims President George W.

Testifying May 18 at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Animal Rights: Activism vs. Criminality," John E. Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, said "The Animal Liberation Front ...

Environmental activist groups, despite last year successfully calling for increased importation of foreign natural gas as an alternative to domestic drilling, are now engaging in a campaign to oppose natural gas imports.

The Kansas Supreme Court on May 14 ruled counties may not impose more stringent environmental and pollution controls on feedlot owners than are imposed under state law.

During the 2000 Congressional session, and again during the 2001 session, a group of big-government federal lawmakers attempted one of the largest and most expensive land grabs in history.

On May 10, the California Senate Appropriations Committee heard testimony on the "Healthy Californians Biomonitoring Program," introduced in February by State Sen. Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento).

On April 15, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its new plan to tighten the national ambient air quality standard for smog.

As the European Union (EU) uses World Trade Organization membership as a threat against Russia, evidence is mounting that the EU itself is failing to uphold its end of the Kyoto Protocol bargain. One of President George W.

American voters are generally happy with the condition of their local environment and the performance of their elected representatives on environment issues, according to several recent public opinion polls.

Environmental activists launched the annual Earth Day ritual in 1970 to bemoan the "havoc" wreaked on Earth by humans. Thirty-four years later, environmental activists still rant and rave about what we "bad" people do to the "good" Earth.

Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for launching the "Green Revolution" in agriculture that helped curb world hunger, appeared on National Public Radio March 26 to laud genetic modification in agriculture and caution against the

Landmark legislation that would have set air pollution limits for Iowa hog and cattle farms was dealt a severe setback on April 13 when Governor Tom Vilsack (D) vetoed a bill that had cleared the Iowa legislature.

On April 16, about 70 participants in the 2004 Preserving the American Dream Conference toured Portland and visited nine high-density housing sites.

I’d like to thank the Libertarian Party for inviting me to speak this morning.

Fueled by powerful trial attorneys rewriting the books on tort law, some 730,000 asbestos claims have been filed ... and most are made by healthy, unimpaired individuals.

On the 30-year anniversary of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), the nation's governors came together in a bipartisan effort to urge more state participation in federal endangered species programs.

According to a new report by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), "building new highways will do little to alleviate traffic congestion in the long run and likely will exacerbate already severe air pollution problems in metropolitan areas across

Environmental advocacy groups have commenced their election-year attack on President George W. Bush.