World & Nation
An industrial boom is leaving an environmental mess in many parts of Asia.
Sept. 25, 1988
Science & Medicine
On Earth Day, the global news is mostly gloom.
April 22, 1990
Politics
Fellow Democratic presidential candidates Edwards and Lieberman also use Earth Day to promote environmental causes.
April 23, 2003
Announcing the second of its two steps to overhaul the way the Clean Air Act forces power plants to cut pollutants, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed a market-based, cap-and-trade system to reduce emissions from electric utilities in the East and the Midwest.
Dec. 18, 2003
Energy: Bush team weighs easing restrictions on industrial polluters to help boost power supply. Outcome could outstrip the effects of other recent environmental issues.
Aug. 13, 2001
Environmentalists are not happy with President Bush’s nominee for secretary of the Interior.
Jan. 23, 2001
Recent remark, later clarified by aides, about the possibility of scrapping Cal/EPA only bolsters skepticism.
Oct. 3, 2003
California
The way Ventura County encourages air polluters to clean up their act has come under fire, the result of an unusual challenge of a large oil company by local environmentalists.
March 24, 1988
The Willamette River, whose citizen-led cleanup in the 1960s inspired the nation to reclaim its waterways, has become so tainted by sewage and industrial waste that it faces being listed as a federal Superfund site--the roster of the country’s most polluted places.
April 8, 2000
How The Times editorialized on the environment in 1972.
Dec. 20, 2007