Last fall, Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney testified before Congress that "simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior." [1] New revelations about the relationship between two high-ranking administration...
Environmental groups are very concerned about the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to allow the application of pesticides on waterways. Before this exemption, a permit under the Clean Water Act was required for pesticides applied on or near waterways. “More...
Here’s something that will take your breath away. The EPA, charged with protecting our environment, has adopted new air quality standards that actually put our environment and health at greater risk. At issue is the standard for annual releases of...
Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of...
Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of...
“Evangelicals… comprise between 40 to 50 percent of… the Republican base, and so if the largest single population group in the Republican coalition were to say, ‘this is important. We want you to take, as leaders in the Republican party,...
As if flying the friendly skies weren’t scary enough. Now it appears that aviation poses hazards to those of us here on the ground. In the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the fields where we...
The Bush administration is quietly pressing for a free trade agreement with Peru that will put the Amazon rainforest – often described as one of the earth’s lungs – on the chopping block. Because the Amazon rainforest - one of...
Thanks to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, along with Katrina and this summer’s blistering heat waves, the threats posed by global warming have morphed from a far-fetched possibility to a clear and present danger in the minds of voters, scientists,...
NOTE: Today's Washington Post story, Male Bass Across Region Found to Be Bearing Eggs, suggests that serious water pollution is affecting the entire Potomac river basin not just the Shenandoah river tributary described in the piece below. This underscores the...
