Stories by David Helvarg

David Helvarg is a journalist and documentary producer, and author of Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas. subscribe to David Helvarg's feed

George W. and the Fossil Fuel Posse

Posted on: Jun 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet

The story of the energy industry's dollar-fueled ascent to the White House is full of drama, both high and low.

Unwise Use: Gale Norton's New 'Environmentalism'

Posted on: Jun 16, 2003, Source: The Progressive

Two decades after James Watt, his agenda has become government policy.

A Dolphin Disses War

Posted on: Apr 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet

A dolphin gives the inside scoop on what the Navy really does with the largest contingent of captive marine mammals in the world.

Bush Is No Reagan; He's a Harding

Posted on: Jul 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet

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?

The Blue Frontier

Posted on: Apr 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet

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.

The Three Horsemen of the Environmental Apocalypse

Posted on: Jan 15, 2001, Source: The Nation

Why has Bush nominated people to the EPA, DOE, and Interior Departments who are anti-environmentalists?

The Republican Convention Disaster

Posted on: Apr 25, 2000, Source: deleted

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.