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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Greenslinging	Ben White	25 Feb 2000	Muckraker
The environment -- oh-so-neglected for much of the presidential campaign (as we noted in past columns) -- has bubbled up to the top of the issue mix in recent days. While the Republican battle royale between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain still steals most of the ink and gets the lion's share of airtime on the evening news, the Democrats have ratcheted up their battle for the hearts and minds of environmentalists. Things starte ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Marching to a Different Beat	Ben White	14 Feb 2000	Muckraker
Enviros of different stripes disagree on a lot of issues, but many have lamented in unison the recent absence of a full-time environmental writer at the New York Times. Got a hot story in need of some serious national ink? Whom do you call? USA Today? The news mags? The networks? Sure -- you call them all. But everyone knows that the biggest impact comes when the Old Gray Lady springs into action. Word on the street is that the empty slot ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, NRDC, politics (all these topics)

The Phantom Menace?	Ben White	20 May 1999	Muckraker
Last week brought an end to the remarkable run of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who announced his intention to leave Washington and turn the reins of the federal treasury over to his well-groomed deputy, Lawrence Summers, known affectionately to some enviro insiders as Darth Vader. Although Wall Street may be comfortable with Summers, environmentalists are not. Lawrence Summers, Dark Lord of the Sith In 1991, while at the World Bank, Summers signed ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Riders on the Storm	Ben White	12 May 1999	Muckraker
No one in her or his right mind thinks the 106th Congress is going to pass a whole lot of actual free-standing legislation. It will likely take every ounce of strength this feeble Congress can muster to pass the essential spending bills that fund the government. So riders, those pesky little items that hope to escape scrutiny by hitching a ride on big money bills, are the name of the game, as noted in last week's Muckraker. The current vehicle for ...
Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, mining, Muckraker, politics, United States, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Sprawl Brawl	Ben White	28 Apr 1999	Muckraker
The Sierra Club released poll numbers recently indicating that 47 percent of voters would be more likely to support a presidential candidate prepared to aggressively attack the problem of urban sprawl. Most people associate VP Al Gore with that issue, but Seattle Mayor Paul Schell has his own ideas. Schell jumped on Bill Bradley's presidential bandwagon last week and told this reporter a large part of the reason was the former New Jersey senator and hoop ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Seattle, Sierra Club, Texas ... (all these topics)

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