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Toxic ‘Reform’ Law Will Gut State Rules on Dangerous Chemicals
TOXIC “REFORM” LAW WILL GUT STATE RULES ON DANGEROUS CHEMICALS A NEW SET OF BILLS that aims to update the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act may nullify the efforts of states such as Maine and California to regulate dangerous chemicals. The Senate’s bill, passed last month, just before the holidays, is particularly restrictive. The Frank R. […]
Flint’s Contaminated Drinking Water is Third Water Crisis For Michigan Governor
Flint’s Contaminated Drinking Water is Third Water Crisis For Michigan Governor Residents put at risk by ideology, misguided decisions. Photo courtesy Michigan Municipal League via Flickr Creative Commons Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is at the center of criticism over a public health crisis in Flint, where a state decision to switch the city’s water source ended […]
Weather extremes slash cereal yields
Weather extremes slash cereal yields Wheat and other cereal crops in developed countries such as Australia have been decimated. Image: CSIRO via Wikimedia Commons Increasing intensity of heat and drought as a result of global warming may have caused worldwide cereal harvests to be cut by up to a tenth since the mid-1960s. LONDON, 8 January, 2016 – Climate […]
Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Academic Cover It Provides for Fossil Fuel Interests
Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Academic Cover It Provides for Fossil Fuel Interests When thinking about influential academic policy think tanks, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy doesn’t necessarily come first to mind. Slowly and steadily, however, the institute has turned into one of the nation’s most powerful outfits. In the 2009 “Global […]
Wilderness and Economics
Wilderness and Economics “A national park will not save the area. Rather, the restrictions and red tape that come with federal control would inhibit growth. Survival requires economic development, but a national park will limit our options.” — Kathy Gagnon editorial opposing a national park in Maine published in Bangor Daily News May 11, 2014 [i] Wildland preservation […]
Charter Rights at Issue in Fracking Supreme Court Case
Charter Rights at Issue in Fracking Supreme Court Case Jessica Ernst’s long battle over rights, well contamination reaches highest court Tuesday. Jessica Ernst stands in front of Encana compressors in Rosebud, Alberta. Photo by Tor Lundberg Tuorda. An Alberta woman’s landmark eight-year battle over fracking regulation, water contamination and Charter rights will take centre stage […]
More Droughts May Mean Less Power
More Droughts May Mean Less Power The powerful flow of rivers such as the Columbia in Oregon, US, could be greatly reduced. (National Weather Service Forecast Office via Wikimedia Commons) LONDON—Climate change could threaten the electricity supply around the world, according to new calculations. That is because the power generation depends on a sure supply of water. […]
Study Finds The ‘Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over’
Study Finds The ‘Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over’ Conservative think tanks in the United States are a sort of “ground zero” for the production of doubt about the links between fossil fuel burning and dangerous climate change. These think tanks produce reports, hold conferences, write books, go on television, produce columns and blogs […]
Doctors Sound Alarm as State of Emergency Declared over CA Gas Leak: Leave Now
Doctors Sound Alarm as State of Emergency Declared over CA Gas Leak: Leave Now (ANTIMEDIA) Los Angeles, CA — California Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, concerning the ongoing, currently unstoppable methane gas leak spewing from Aliso Canyon that has created a nightmare for residents of Porter Ranch. “I will tell you, this goes well beyond Porter Ranch. […]
Despite UK Flooding, A Yorkshire Town Remains Dry
DESPITE UK FLOODING, A YORKSHIRE TOWN REMAINS DRY Despite widespread flooding in North of Britain last week, Pickering, Yorkshires main flooding region, beat the weather and stayed dry. Notwithstanding, the town had been refused financial aid for a defense mechanism, so it tackled it with wringing success. The town prevented the recurrent inundation by using […]
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil The market was supposed to save the planet. That, at least, was the argument of many economists grappling with the problem of climate change. As fossil fuels became scarcer, they pointed out, the price of oil and natural gas would go up. And then other options, like solar and wind, […]
‘About Time’: Jerry Brown Declares State of Emergency Over Porter Ranch
‘About Time’: Jerry Brown Declares State of Emergency Over Porter Ranch Organizers say the leak has ‘been a wake-up call for this community…. We’re all on the front lines of climate change.’ Porter Ranch residents protest California Governor Jerry Brown’s months-long refusal to call a state of emergency over the gas leak that has been […]
Down the Ratholes of the Future
Down the Ratholes of the Future The new year now upon us has brought out the usual quota of predictions about what 2016 has in store, and I propose as usual to make my own contribution to that theme. I’ve noted more than once in the past that people who make predictions about the future really […]
