Presidency of Bill Clinton

The hopes for environmental improvements along the U-S-/Mexico border cities in the two years since the NAFTA agreement was signed still seem out of reach. Barbara Ferry reports from the border city of Juarez, Mexico on the problems in cleaning-up its putrid sewage canals.

Vice President Gore recently announced that President Clinton will veto any bill that includes provisions for oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wilderness Refuge. Terry FitzPatrick reports on the tough new talk coming from the White House on the Alaskan oil drilling question.

National Parks have become the latest budget battleground between Congress and the White House. The Clinton Administration claims Republicans’ proposed cuts to the National Park Service would decimate a valuable recreational resource. Fiscally conservative Republicans say that only the most important and most popular parks deserve tax dollars. William Drummond reports on the debate.

Terry FitzPatrick reports on the Clinton administration’s efforts to bolster exports of cleanup technology. Entrepreneurs are hopeful their products will see improved sales overseas. But some critics call it corporate welfare and others say it’s too little too late to help the U.S.’s sagging envirotech industry.