Stories by Sunny Lewis
Sunny Lewis is editor-in-chief of Environment News Service, an independently owned, real-time wire service covering the environment.
A coalition of conservation groups have launched a nationwide boycott to protest the oil giant's many misdeeds; chiefly, its plan to drill for oil in the Arctic Refuge.
Posted on Jul 14, 2005
The Bush Administration’s fingerprints are all over a draft of an international plan to combat climate change.
Posted on Jun 20, 2005
Prompted by an eco-friendly mayor, San Francisco is cleansing itself of grime and litter, planting trees and getting ready for an influx of visitors from overseas, attracted by the weak U.S. dollar.
Posted on Mar 17, 2005
California has passed the nation's first-ever greenhouse gas reduction law. And Big Auto isn't going to take it lying down.
Posted on Dec 9, 2004
The first off-shore wind farm in the U.S. will produce clean energy, lower electricity prices, create jobs and harm no animals, birds or fish. So what if it blocks the view.
Posted on Nov 12, 2004
New Jersey has just enacted the strictest mercury and arsenic rules in the nation. Now if only the rest of the country would follow suit.
Posted on Nov 8, 2004
The environment wasn't an important factor in the choices of voters in pivotal battleground states like Ohio. And across the country, green ballot measures had mixed results.
Posted on Nov 3, 2004
Green groups watching the second presidential debate say Bush's assertions amounted to a 'gross misrepresentation of the President's real record.'
Posted on Oct 11, 2004
Tired of sitting in traffic? Get used to it; a new report says worsening gridlock is our latest national trend.
Posted on Sep 8, 2004
There's been no mention at the Republican convention of natural resource conservation, or energy, forests, water, oil, oceans, chemical contamination or the environmental causes of disease.
Posted on Sep 1, 2004
As conventioneers arrive, demonstrators at the World Trade Center site are holding a daily vigil to inform the nation that the area is still contaminated with toxics spread when the buildings collapsed.
Posted on Aug 27, 2004
John Edwards' stellar environmental voting record delights conservation groups and adds a distinctly green hue to the Kerry campaign.
Posted on Jul 7, 2004
A disturbing new report shows the cumulative impact of harmful Bush administration environmental policies on Hispanic communities.
Posted on Jun 30, 2004