Mark Hertsgaard

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Mark Hertsgaard is the environment correspondent of The Nation and the executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. His new book is Big Red’s Mercy:  The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and A Story of Race in America.

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 / 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 / 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 / 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

Corporate Greenhouse Corporate Greenhouse

This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is re...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard

A Global Green Deal A Global Green Deal

Government can do a lot to save the planet, from altering tax policies to aiding nascent industries. The money is there; all it takes now is the will.

Feb 1, 1999 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

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