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The Bush Administration’s record on the national wildlife refuge system so far…

In the fall of 1997, anti-car activists from 50 groups in 21 countries converged on Lyon, France, for a conference that was far more than the usual round of speeches. Although there were some relatively sedate workshops, the real action at "Towards Car-Free Cites" was in the streets, with protesters blocking highways, physically moving illegally […]

Earth Day 2000 is far too big to be fully annotated here, but a quick trip to www.earthday.net will provide a roadmap to Earth Day 2000 celebrations around the U.S., and around the world. Here are some of the American highlights. Washington Seattle: The Earth Day Puget Sound Coalition will host a large fair at […]

The Income Tax’s Progressive Roots One argument against a tax shift is that the change would violate the spirit of the progressive income tax. It sounds plausible, but in reality the opposite is true. If Congress kept the income tax for higher incomes and shifted part of the rest to polluting natural resources, the result […]

State by State Though green tax reform isn’t exactly becoming the law of the land, it is beginning to make inroads on the state level, where a blizzard of bills have been introduced and a healthy dialogue is building. Here’s a state-by-state look at some exciting developments: Maine. Progressive financial ideas are alive and well […]

Divers armed with plastic squeeze bottles, wearing masks that make them look like grim reapers, swim through shimmering coral fish in Southeast Asia. They select among the colorful prey and squirt a solution of sodium cyanide on the fish, stunning them. Most big fish survive the poison, but some small fish sink to the bottom, […]

After years of being hunted, snared, and picked-off from airplanes, Alaska’s wolves (6,000 at last count, by far the biggest population of any state) are going under the knife. In 1996, Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) biologists began sterilizing alpha (dominant) males and females in the Fortymile region near Fairbanks, in the hopes […]

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. […]