Poland is usually thought of as a kind of environmental house of horrors. Belching smokestacks, coal-darkened buildings and mammoth industrial complexes are dismal and grimy images that leap at us from reports about Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, wholesale despoliation is not a pervasive condition. In spite of the gray renderings, much of Poland is still surprisingly lush. Unfortunately, few get to see past the cheerless Orwellian viage to the other Poland – the green Poland.

For six years, the plucky little Geo Metro XFi hatchback was the most fuel-efficient car on the market, with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) milage rating of 53 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 58 on the highway. But for 1995, this American milage champ – the little engine that could – got the ax, having accounted for only less than 10 percent or less of overall Metro Sales.

John MacLeod, operations manager of Hull, Massachusetts’ Municipal Light Plant, stands inside the tower of Hull Wind I, a Danish-made 660-kilowatt Vestas turbine that has the distinction of being the first commercial-scale windmill to go online anywhere on the U.S.’s eastern coastline.

The battle over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has reached a fever pitch this week, as lobbyists from both sides of the debate swarm Capitol Hill hoping to influence the few members of Congress still on the fence.

descrU.S. delegates to the mercury pollution summit meeting in Nairobi, Kenya last week reported that their vision for a non-binding agreement based on voluntary cutbacks by industry prevailed over the position taken by the European Union and others calling for mandatory restrictions.