Environment & Energy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Soil/Guano By far the most interesting and alarming discoveries of the Chopra-Lee Inc. investigation involve the soil and soil/guano samples obtained from Little Galloo and Galloo Islands.

The sudden resignation of EPA Region I Administrator John P. DeVillars has sparked speculation within the agency and in the media that his departure could be related to widespread reports of enforcement problems in EPA's Boston office.

A private consulting firm hired by a group of concerned citizens has found potentially harmful levels of PCBs, DDE, and mercury on state-owned property, Little Galloo Island, in eastern Lake Ontario.

Modern biotechnology has sparked both optimism and controversy. Debate about the impact of the research tools and products of biotechnology encompasses human health, farm economics, global biodiversity, and environmental quality.

Midwest farmers face tough, possibly costly, decisions as debate rages in Europe over whether to treat genetically modified (GM) crops differently from others in the European food marketplace.

U.S. Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-Colorado) has called for the resignation of two Interior Department officials for their failure to remove U.S.

“We as Americans . . . do things that are wrong, but we ultimately, sooner or later, seem to get our act together. And I think we better get about getting our act together while we still have the liberty to do so.” Dr. Walter E.

“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.

The Food and Drug Administration has been holding hearings across the country on the safety of genetically engineered plants as food for humans.

Congressmen John McHugh (R-New York) and Collin Peterson (DFL-Minnesota) introduced a bill on October 20 authorizing states to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants. H.R. 3118 has been referred to the House Resources Committee.