Wendy Williams

For nearly a decade, the Colombian military, fed by American dollars, has used crop-dusting planes to drop a dangerous herbicide where it believes coca and poppy fields may exist. In return for that favor, the United States government is giving the friendly generals items like Blackhawk helicopters, which the military promises to use to fight […]

Environmentalists reacted today with rather restrained enthusiasm to yesterday’s appointment by the Bush administration of Dale N. Bosworth as the new head of the U.S. Forest Service. While not out front in his support of many of the Forest Service’s most recent conservation moves — such as the ban on roads in about one-third of […]

“In government, there are two ways to destroy something,” says one federal biologist. “If you can’t do it directly, then just don’t pay for it.” Environmentalists in the executive branch ought to know: This Earth Day, President Bush is scheming to snap the wallet shut on the Endangered Species Act. Bush’s proposed 2002 budget limits […]