Three Mile Island Three Mile Island
On the morning of September 11, 2001, after the second plane hit the World Trade Center and it was clear that the nation was under attack, US authorities issued an emergency aler...
Mar 18, 2004 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
A New Ice Age? A New Ice Age?
George W. Bush may not know it, but one influential part of his government is finally taking global climate change seriously.
Feb 12, 2004 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
The Once-Green GOP The Once-Green GOP
"The environment is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general--and President Bush in particular--are most vulnerable." So asserted Frank Luntz, a leading Republic...
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
Trashing the Environment Trashing the Environment
Kyoto was just a start for Bush.
Jan 16, 2003 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
California Green Light California Green Light
Who says the good guys never win? California's new global warming law is a bona fide big deal. Signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on July 22, the global warming bill requires ...
Aug 1, 2002 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
The Truth on Warming The Truth on Warming
The journalist I.F. Stone used to joke that the government issues so much information every day, it can't help but let the truth slip out every once in a while. The Bush Administr...
Jun 20, 2002 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
Bush & Global Warming Bush & Global Warming
It's time for the United States to show as much commitment in the battle against global warming as it does in the "war on terror."
Nov 21, 2001 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
Dioxin: Studied to Death Dioxin: Studied to Death
Industry has been doing all it can to keep an EPA report from being published.
May 10, 2001 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Russia’s Environmental Crisis Russia’s Environmental Crisis
NPR's Living On Earth program broadcast a radio version of this story over the weekend of September 1-3, 2000. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Ins...
Sep 7, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
A Green Foreign Policy A Green Foreign Policy
The power of the market, and of the giant corporations that dominate it, is the overriding political fact of our time.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard