Category: Environment

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The Maine Woods

The Uncommon Forest

Maine’ vast wildlands contain the most uncommon forest in America. Known in the Eastern U.S. as the legendary Maine Woods, the tall stands of spruce, fir, pine, and hardwoods sweep across almost all of the 10-million acre region, making Maine the most heavily wooded state

An early above ground weapons detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

Downwind Deals

In late 1982 in a Salt Lake City courtroom, the United States mounted a complex and costly legal battle against a small group of its own citizens who struggled to prove that their government had knowingly subjected them and thousands of others to dangerously high

Pat Miller

Toxic Torts: Compensating Victims of Hazardous Substances

Pat Miller is a housewife. Alvin Green is a farmer. Martha Laird is a housewife. Salvatore Ganci is a former construction worker and Steven Sterling is a former carpenter. They live in the rich farmland of Michigan, the desolate high desert of Nevada, the modest

Political cartoon

The Filthy Five

WASHINGTON, DC.–Bob Eckhardt, the softly drawling Texas Democrat whose bow ties and principled stands added a grace to the halls of Congress for 14 years, was beaten in the 1980 elections by a 28year-old Houston attorney who preached the Republican gospel of less government and

Most species of fish in Lake Ontario are contaminated with toxic chemical Mirex

The Northern Fish Mystery

BURLINGTON, Ontario–Klaus Kaiser felt no sense of urgency as he drove east across Canada in the summer of 1973 toward an obscure fishing station called Glenora in Lake Ontario’s Bay of Quinte. The young, German-born research scientist for Canada’s equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency