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Federal employees will receive backpay when the government reopens. Federal contractors will not, but some in Congress are trying to change that.

One of the best known indigenous and environmental rights leaders was murdered in her hometown in Honduras. Renee Montagne talks to human rights activist Annie Bird about Berta Cáceres' death.

During the height of summer tourist season, miles of beaches have been closed. Flooding from heavy rains caused more than 500,000 gallons of waste to overflow from manholes and cascade into the surf.

Facebook's campus on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay is at risk from rising sea levels. So is a nearby low-income community. That's raising questions about who should be paying for climate change.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the slurry was not as dangerous as the government initially believed. Environmental groups disagree with his assessment.

Republicans and President Clinton both want to reduce federal taxes on gasoline. In fact, other countries pay much higher taxes on their gasoline, partly to pay for roads and to ameliorate environmental damage from auto traffic. Environmentalists argue that gas taxes should be high to pay for such costs, but some economists say it's unfair to place such a high burden on this one commodity, which is so crucial to economic activity.

Detroit is celebrating the one-hundred-year anniversary of the first time automobiles were produced in volume, with many events scheduled all summer long. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on one ongoing event where engineering students are trying to build a environmentally friendly sedan which can travel up to eighty miles on a gallon of gas.

are moving towards an agreement on funding for several government departments that do not have permanent funding through the end of the year. But the President is threatening to veto any bills that have environmental riders attached.

After the Oklahoma City bombing, the country suddenly took note of the rhetoric coming from far-right radical groups such as the numerous citizen militias and separatists such as the Posse Comitatus. Now, reports NPR's Howard Berkes, similar links are being made between the suspected Unabomber and the inflammatory language of some radical environmental groups.

2: Miami Herald columnist and novelist CARL HIAASEN. "Strip Tease," Hiassen's fifth novel and latest gonzo thriller, is a yarn, pitting a seemy Florida politician against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. Mr. Hiaasen has spun tales of environmentalists feeding tourists and senior citizens to alligators ("Tourist Season), of a villainous South Florida plastic surgeon who kills a woman during a nose job ("Skin Tight"), and about the amusement park, "The Amazing KIngdom of Thrills,' where one of the novel's heavies is loved to death by an amorous dolphin ("Native Tongue").