Environment & Energy

On April 17, Western Fuels Association Inc. filed suit in Wyoming federal district court against six anti-coal environmentalist groups, alleging the groups’ “Global warming -- how will it end?

There is no “evidence suggesting that foods on the market today are unsafe to eat as a result of genetic modification,” concluded a report released by the National Academy of Sciences on April 5, 2000.

We are sure most of you who read these pages are regularly baffled by how poorly rational arguments on environmental issues fare in the public forum.

The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has ruled that the Clean Water Act of 1972 gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to set water-quality standards for every navigable river in America.

Public Lands Council v. Babbitt The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments challenging regulations, proposed in 1995 by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and set to go into effect this spring, alleged to violate the Taylor Grazing Act.

The past millennium brought unprecedented improvements in human health, nutrition, and life expectancy, especially among those most blessed by political and economic liberty and advances in science and technology.

The effort to create a massive federal land-buying trust, funded with billions of tax dollars, is moving through Congress like a freight train, with hundreds of sponsors.

POCATELLO, IDAHO March 17--The Forest Service Council, representing 14,000 Forest Service employees in 92 National Forest Service unions, has issued a letter denouncing the Clinton-Gore administration's roadless area initiative.

“Despite the best intentions of the authors, H.R.

From early 1999, right through the President’s State of the Union Address this year, the Clinton-Gore White House and the U.S.

Forestry subcommittee investigators probing the development of the Clinton-Gore administration’s “Roadless Initiative” have pieced together an incriminating timeline of events, from the Forest Service’s first efforts in early 1999

“[There is] substantial likelihood that officials in the Corps [of Engineers] have engaged in violations of law, rule or regulation and a gross waste of funds” said the federal government’s Special Counsel, Elaine Kaplan, after

In February, the American Lung Association (ALA) presented its President's Award to EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner. Some observers wonder if the award was a “thank-you note” for the $7.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced plans to establish new national standards for the production and processing of “organic” foods and meats.

It’s an election year.

Angered by revelations that a top EPA official used death threats to silence agency critics, several members of the House Science Committee have demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency apologize for what one lawmaker called "indefensible and

Controversy over the sustainability of modern civilization has been with us since long before our current modern civilization, and it has grown steadily during the Clinton-Gore administration’s reign.

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in late February in Washington, DC, scientists from around the globe considered how to provide enough food for the world’s people.

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.