From America’s Dirtiest City to Its Greenest “Chattanooga,” proclaims a 1924 promotional brochure whose cover features artistically rendered belching smokestacks, “is a divine masterpiece in the making.” Unfortunately, the roaring fires of this industrial riverfront city came to symbolize something other than progress. By 1969, just before the first Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency […]
Defending America's Wilder Ways Dr. Rodger Schlickeisen, at the helm of the 50-year-old Defenders of Wildlife since 1991, has by now grown accustomed to controversy in his work defending some of America's biggest predators—including grizzly bears, wolves and mountain lions. In 1995 and 1996, Defenders scored a triumph by negotiating legal entanglements and vociferous local […]
Your cover article “Talking Trash” in the March/April 1997 issue said there were only two curbside recycling programs in the country in the early 1970s. Where were they? —Bonnie Emerick, Chicago, IL According to Neil Seldman, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the two programs were in Marblehead, Massachusetts and Madison, Wisconsin. Seldman says […]
Is Florida Loving Its Endangered Marine Mammals to Death?
Activist Phone Companies Give to the Cause and Reduce Rates, Too The FAX machine, the World Wide Web and email-all tied to telephone lines-have made possible a revolution in American work habits. The convenience and cost savings of working from home means even the environmentally unaware are increasingly trading in their driving shoes for stay-at-home […]
Numerous studies have attempted to link breast cancers with environmental factors, including electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and chlorinated pesticides.
Commercial carpeting can off-gas lots of chemicals so buyer beware. Luckily there are starting to be more and more healthy options that are also easier on the environment out there.
The Small Gas Engine Is an Environmental Nightmare Most summer weekends, a few million people use them to mow lawns, trim hedges, blow leaves or cut up firewood. Millions more use them to buzz over waterways and lakes in jet skis or motorboats. In the winter, people in the colder climates roar along snow-clogged residential […]
General Motors’ investment of vast amounts of capital and energy in manipulating public opinion and state law (see main story) may seem unprecedented, but this is, after all, a company’s whose executives could proudly proclaim, “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.” Indeed, GM’s campaign against electric cars has an eerily similar precedent. […]
Big Oil Goes Hunting for Electric Cars in California. If It Wins, We All Lose It was 8 a.m., September 16, 1996, and the red light was on in the studio of KSFO-AM in San Francisco. “Hot Talk” host Lee Rogers was doing his best to get his drivetime listeners (who, then as now, breathe […]
