The Sacramento Bee’s Expose: Environmental Orginizations Are Now Big-Business

This five-part series from April of 2001 by The Bee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental reporter, Tom Knudson, details how most of the so-called environmental orginizations have become money-hungry businesses that don’t act like they really have the Earth’s best interests at heart.

Series Introduction & Summary

Main story: Movement’s prosperity comes at a high price

There are also two sidebars: Rare rodent likely extinct and A century of environmentalism, as well as two graphics available as PDFs: Executive Salaries, The greening of the environmental movement and a photo gallery.

Mission adrift/fundraising frenzy

Costly lawsuits vs. motive

Spin on science/national treasure at risk

Grass-roots solutions

This page was last modified on Monday, 11-Oct-2004 18:59:35 PDT.

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