Energy & the Environment

Because Vice President Al Gore is an ardent environmentalist, the Clinton White House has placed a high priority on getting an international global warming treaty. One member of the National Security Council is assigned to oversee the treaty that the United States and other industrialized nations agreed to in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. And […]

After winning control of Congress in November 1994, the Republican leadership, working closely with business lobbyists and policy groups, launched an ambitious effort to roll back a century of reform legislation-from the food and drug laws of the Progressive Era to the New Deal’s Social Security Act to the workplace and environmental regulation of the […]

Simply revoking laws that protect clean water, air, or food wouldn’t be popular, so Congress is passing procedural changes that sound neutral but bias the outcome in favor of corporate interests.

Despite some eleventh-hour heroics by environmentalists, the Republican Congress has been offering lots of goodies to industry polluters — thanks largely to the corporate lobbyists who wrote much of the legislation.

How corporate developers have used grassroots organizing to disguise their attack on environmental protection — and how activists in one state stopped them.

Less developed countries are spewing dangerous emissions that will lead to global warming. But it will take money to change that–money that the wealthier, more developed nations are reluctant to spend.

It used to be that leaving states to their own devices meant rampant pollution, as each state relaxed regulation standards to attract business. No longer.

The sky isn’t falling. But it is filling—and emission rights are worth millions. Will we give those rights away, or use them to create a new source of public wealth?