Natasha Hunter

Three anarchists are putting the finishing touches on two effigies stuffed with newspapers and wearing suits and ties when a cheer goes up from the motley crowd gathered on the south side of the Washington Monument. The Sept. 28 anti-globalization march on Washington has begun, but the flammable CEOs aren’t ready yet. The trio’s compatriots, […]

As the brawl rages between the administration and environmentalists over the recently announced changes to the New Source Review (NSR) provision of the Clean Air Act, one should keep an eye on the stakes. It’s easy to lose your way in the technical mumbo jumbo of terms like “retrofitting,” “actual emissions baseline,” and “PALs,” to […]

An industrial chemical is collecting inside you. It gathers in your fat, accumulating year after year. You can’t avoid absorbing it: The substance is all around you — in your computer, your TV, your sofa, your rugs, your walls, your car, and the container you’ll heat your lunch in. It’s there, and almost everywhere else […]

Gregg Easterbrook titles his recent critique — of my own critique of a recent New Republic editorial — “Dim Prospect.” He may be right about my brain wattage: I’ve read his article several times and I’m still a little confused. But in the interests of differentiating The American Prospect from both TNR and Cornel West’s […]

Sigh. Keeping the planet inhabitable seems like such a no-brainer. And yet in spite of heaps, mounds, and mountains of hard scientific data, some still opt for the more “unpredictable” narrative about the environment. A recent New Republic editorial pooh-poohs the green movement’s doomsday warnings as the product of a morosely overactive imagination. It then […]

New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer excoriated the controversial Senate energy bill today, calling the legislation an “evil stew” of industry tax breaks and environmental rollbacks. Schumer, who joined the Sierra Club, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the National Research Defense Council (NRDC) and Public Citizen in a hastily assembled press conference in […]

The collapse of Enron generated a flurry of speculation about Texas Senator Phil Gramm’s political loyalties, owing to his wife’s position on Enron’s board and Enron’s extensive contributions to Gramm’s campaigns. Whatever Gramm’s motivations are, shame doesn’t seem to be among them. As Senate Republicans accused Democrats of obstructing the energy bill last week, Gramm […]