Environment & Energy

As a child growing up in a big Irish family, I attended many a wake. Without fail, someone would comment of the dearly departed--call him Danny--“Danny, we hardly knew ye.

To: Carl Pope Executive Director Sierra Club Dear Carl: Sorry to bother you.

EPA released its 1998 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data May 11, 2000.

In June, Environment & Climate News reported a new $50 million effort launched by the biotechnology industry to educate the public about the advantages and safety of bioengineered products.

The Washington, DC-based Heritage Foundation has recently released its Issues 2000 — The Candidate’s Briefing Book, a massive tome offering careful analysis of more than a dozen key public policy issues facing candidates in the November election.

The U.S. Forest Service released on May 9 its proposed Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) regarding the Clinton-Gore administration’s plan to ban road construction on up to 60 million acres of National Forests.

Summary: In this speech by the Hon. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida, 6th District) addressing the House of Representatives states that we should preserve freedom and not follow the dictates of the Earth First!

A potentially powerful news organization has been launched to spread the message of the left-wing environmental movement. Verde Media has been established, according to founder and chairman, Peek Garlington III, to be “. . .

Expressing his support for an Interior Department proposal to create three new National Monuments and expand a fourth monument in the West, President Clinton late last year proclaimed, "giving these lands National Monument status would ensure they will

“What are they doing here?” “What the heck do they want? “Where did they all come from?” “How did they get so well-financed and organized?

The following passages are quoted, without footnotes, from the executive summary to the National Academy of Sciences April 5 report, Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation.

Bio2000, a week-long conference for the international biotechnology industry, ended March 31 after setting attendance records for both conferees and protestors. Nearly 8,000 industry representatives attended the Boston convention.

The biotechnology industry has begun a three-year, $50 million program to educate consumers about the safety and benefits of bioengineered foods.

When Congressman George Radanovich (R-California) received an email urging Earth Liberation Front (ELF) members to wage “militant demonstrations targeting U.S.

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.