Stories by Mark Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard, the environment correspondent for The Nation, is the author of six books, including "Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future." His next book is called, "Living Through the Storm: How We Survive the Next 50 Years of Climate Change."
The debate over the Climate Security Act shows how the next Congress, and the next President, will address the most urgent issue facing us.
Posted on Jun 5, 2008
The era of cheap, abundant petroleum is just about over. How ready are we to change our habits?
Posted on Apr 29, 2008
For the first time, an African-American is at the helm of a major green group. Is environmentalism finally breaking free of its wealthy, white confines?
Posted on Jul 25, 2006
Emissions have gone too far and global warming is unavoidable. What is needed is recognition and a willingness to confront the very real challenges ahead.
Posted on Feb 15, 2005
Twenty years later, the Dow/Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal continues to wreak havoc on the lives of thousands. And yet corporate officials have never answered for their actions.
Posted on Dec 1, 2004
20 years after the chemical spill killed over 20,000 in India, the CEO of Union Carbide remains a fugitive, DOW is planning a new factory, and two outspoken victims win a major award.
Posted on May 11, 2004
A Pentagon report indicates that climate change looks much more imminent than previously thought. Will the cold, hard data galvanize the administration?
Posted on Feb 24, 2004
After years of internal bickering and distance from other progressive groups, can environmentalists walk the walk of unity and cooperation?
Posted on Oct 20, 2003
With the supposedly moderate Whitman out, Bush will redefine his approach to the environment -- a critical battleground in 2004. Of course, Republicans aren't going to change their environmental policies -- just how they talk about them.
Posted on May 22, 2003
Bush's environmental record after two years is remarkably odious, considering his "achievements" have all been due to economic, military and energy policies.
Posted on Jan 30, 2003
The EPA's ombudsman says Whitman muzzled him for criticizing a sweetheart Superfund settlement with a big investor in her husband's firm.
Posted on Jan 14, 2002
Serious trouble is brewing in Mexico following President Vincente Fox's Nov. 8 release of the peasant environmentalists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001
Congressional Republicans are using terrorism fears to advance the Bush administration's energy policy, ignoring the plan's enormous long-term cost.
Posted on Oct 15, 2001
The government helped launch the digital revolution by investing in technology -- so why not do the same to create an energy-efficient economy?
Posted on Jun 25, 2001
Thousands of environmental activists will converge on Washington to protest the World Bank this weekend, and with good reason. Instead of financing rainforest destruction and climate change, the Bank should support a Global Green Deal: a program to renovate human civilization environmentally from top to bottom while truly fighting poverty. Mark Hertsgaard explains how it could be done.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
