Stories by David Helvarg
David Helvarg is a journalist and documentary producer, and author of Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas.
The story of the energy industry's dollar-fueled ascent to the White House is full of drama, both high and low.
Posted on Jun 28, 2004
Two decades after James Watt, his agenda has become government policy.
Posted on Jun 17, 2003
A dolphin gives the inside scoop on what the Navy really does with the largest contingent of captive marine mammals in the world.
Posted on Apr 11, 2003
In the 1920s, President Harding was soaking in Big Oil money, appointing robber barons to his cabinet, cutting taxes for the rich and mangling his English. Sound familiar?
Posted on Jul 17, 2001
Earth Day Special: America's last frontier, the 3.4 million square nautical miles surrounding our shores, was designated an "Exclusive Economic Zone" by Reagan in '83. A look at what happens when you zone the ocean.
Posted on Apr 17, 2001
Why has Bush nominated people to the EPA, DOE, and Interior Departments who are anti-environmentalists?
Posted on Jan 16, 2001
The Democratic Convention is heading to Chicago in August and you can be sure that the media is going to have a replay field-day comparing 1996 to the disastrous 1968 convention when anti-war protesters faced the wrath of Mayor Daley's riot police, and Hubert Humphry realized the Vietnam war was now his albatross to wear. But when the Republicans show up in San Diego, who's going to recall the 1972 convention disaster that almost was? Or remember how the Nixon administration's flirtation with the far-right advanced the cause of terrorism.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
