Some prominent environmentalists are urging that we reconsider nuclear power. But they have been met with resistance from many who believe nuclear power never will be a solution to global warming.
If the oil, coal and nuclear fuel interests have their way -- and they have the support of the Bush Administration already -- the coming "hydrogen revolution" will just be Dirty Energy Redux.
The toxic heavy metal, mercury, is everywhere -- in tuna, auto parts and water. The movement to get it out of the atmosphere has taken on a new urgency as the dangers become better known.
Evidence shows a meat-based diet is bad for the environment, aggravates global hunger, brutalizes animals and compromises health. So why aren't more environmentalists vegetarians?
The Bush administration's environmental team is an environmental nightmare: they are friendly to corporate polluters, lax on enforcement and antagonistic to international cooperation.
Here's the scenario: Sticker shock at the gas pumps, with prices nearly doubling overnight. Long lines at the few stations that are open. The "high" prices that motorists were paying in the spring of 2000 could be a harbinger of a much more serious crisis in oil production and delivery.
Our beleaguered planet is in the midst of an acute fresh water crisis that is likely to intensify in the coming years, exacerbated by global warming, industrial pollution, high-tech agriculture, misplaced development priorities and the steady pressure of exploding populations.
Fuel cell cars, producing only drinkable water out of their tailpipes, are an unambiguous improvement over internal combustion. The promise these cars hold -- to be both environmentally friendly and technically superior to conventional vehicles on the roads today -- has fueled an international race to get a fuel cell car to market.
