The Amicus Journal articles from March 1999

The Amicus Journal archives from March 1999

A Congress paralyzed.(US Congress' failure to make progress in protecting environment)
March 22, 1999... The highest lawmaking body in the land is paralyzed by partisanship. The party-line impeachment votes are only the most publicized example. A trend of bitterness and rancor between the two political parties started in 1995 with the 104th...

Going undercover to dump diesel.
March 22, 1999... January 1998: " The bird is flying. Code, Green! Do you read me? Over." Todd Campbell spoke urgently into the walkie-talkie. Waiting beside him, shivering in the nighttime cold despite her heavy overcoat, Gall Ruderman Feuer listened for the...

Pesticide standoff.(Food Quality Protection Act is unable to protect the public from harmful effects of pesticides)(Editorial)
March 22, 1999... Q: When is a law not a law? A: When it gets in the way of the chemical industry. Against all odds, democracy sometimes achieves wonderful things. Consider the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). In 1989, NRDC alerted the public to...

Reporting live from the Philippines.(includes related articles)(depleting natural resources due to actions of man occurring in Mindanao, Philippines)
March 22, 1999... Joey Lozano is one of the few journalists on Mindanao asking hard questions about the plundering of natural resources. More than once, it has almost cost him his life. It is six o'clock in downtown Zamboanga City, a metropolis at the far...

The millenium bug.(the effects of Year 2000 date-change problem on the environment)
March 22, 1999... What Happens to the Environment in the Year 2000? On December 31, 1999, Barry Benroth of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will await the new century as he awaits every New Year: sitting on the porch of his home in Virginia, a...

Tribal tradition and the spirit of the trust.(organization allowed resumption of gray whale hunting)
March 22, 1999... A Makah Elder Speaks Out for the Gray Whale When she was a little girl, Alberta Thompson used to walk the wilderness trail that comes to a sudden halt on Cape Flattery, the cliff at the northernmost tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula....

The great American land heist.(rich public lands are traded to corporations)
March 22, 1999... Public land is being traded away for a song as corporations reap the benefits Nearly half of America's West is owned collectively by its citizens. Public lands are rich with trees, ore, and recreational wonder, and plenty of people -...

Capitalism goes green?(corporations taking on environmental concerns)
March 22, 1999... Commonsense Eco-Fixes in the Economic Toolbox In 1990, Yale economist William Nordhaus calculated that the cost of stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions in the United States would slash the country's gross domestic product by $200 billion...

The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Nine Clues to the Coming Instability by Eugene Linden Simon & Schuster 282 pp., $25 BY JONATHAN Z. LARSEN Ah, the Apocalypse! What an oddly comforting thought to so many people, and so very much in vogue as we face not just a new...

A Field Guide to the Soul: A Down-to-Earth Handbook of Spiritual Practice.(Review)
March 22, 1999... by James Thornton Bell Tower 276 pp., $23 Increasingly, environmentalists, religious people, and the general public have come to understand that protection of the environment is fundamentally a spiritual concern. The movement is still...