Kathleen Alana McGinty
Interview with Kathleen Alana McGinty, chairperson of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and President Clinton’s senior advisor on environment and natural resources issues.
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Environmental Etiquette
Why It’s Cool to Eat Bugs, Buy Local Produce and Use Glass Containers.
Dirty Dealing on Clean Air
Despite the fact that most Americans think the environment has gotten dramatically better in their lifetimes, the air in 31 states fails to meet federal health standards for smog. I’m breathing some of that bad air myself, since my county is one of the failures.
Restoring Iraq’s Eden
Anyone who watched the 2003 television coverage of coalition troops hurtling across barren desert wastelands through raging dust storms saw the legendary marshes of Iraq—at least what was left of them. The dry, cracked, seemingly endless stretches of desert that the tanks and jeeps rolled across are the consequences of a severe human-engineered disaster. And […]
Let’s Get on Track
In Europe high-speed trains are the norm for travel around the continent. Yes, there are challenges to connect sprawling, suburbanized America to train transit and rebuild the system we once had, but with traffic congestion increasing 400 percent since 1985 it’s time we prioritized fast trains as a national goal. The average commuter spends five years stuck in traffic when he or she could be sitting back and enjoying the ride.
Caught in a Net
The Exxon Valdez civil case, like the spill itself, is unprecedented. It began in 1990, when hundreds of fishers and Native Americans whose subsistence lifestyle had forever been altered and, in some cases, destroyed by the spill, filed lawsuits against Exxon.
Open Season on Varmints
Prairie dogs once occupied 700 million acres throughout the Great Plains, but their range is now just two percent of that. Prairie dogs are in great danger of extinction, but that hasn’t stopped hunters from using them for target practice.
Small Game Hunting
There’s shooters over there," Kim says suddenly. Immediately, the rest of us look east, where she is pointing, across the flat open land of the Montana prairie, dotted with sage brush and cacti, toward rolling hills and a stand of cottonwood trees.
Prairie Bandits
Slob marksmen decimate a prairie dog colony. A first-hand account.
Greenpeace Launches Summer of Forest Protests
Last week police in southern Oregon arrested three Greenpeace activists who had chained themselves to a shipping container to block loggers from reaching an old-growth timber sale on federal land.