“The growth rate of U.S. emissions of gases blamed for global warming rose in 2004, as the country burned more fossil fuel for transportation and electricity, according to federal environment regulators. … The growth rate was stronger than in each of the previous two years with emissions rising 0.6 percent in 2003 and 0.7 […]
“A defense lawyer is challenging the constitutionality of a criminal law being used to prosecute a Dutch pork producer from Delaware County and a Dutch dairy farmer from Huntington County. The law in question makes it a class D felony to knowingly, intentionally or recklessly violate an environmental management law, rule, standard, permit or order. […]
“In 1982, Earth First!er Dave Foreman used form letters to blitz the U.S. Forest Service with administrative appeals, blocking over 100 timber sales that threatened roadless areas in several Western states. This act of paper monkeywrenching sums up the relationship conservationists had with the Forest Service for three decades. We attempted nearly every act of […]
“Anti-wind-power critics can rage about the turbine-generated slaughter of migrating birds and bats, and climate change experts can wonder if sucking all that power out of the atmosphere might not have its own negative effects on the weather, but there’s a lot to like about wind power: renewable, no carbon emissions, relatively cheap. But how […]
“I was born in the Oklahoma oil fields, worked 40 years in domestic oil exploration, found some 14 million barrels of oil, and am still active as an independent geologist. Unlike many energy ‘advisers,’ I know the business from the ground up — literally. As a 9-year-old during World War II, I pumped two wells […]
“The long-awaited World Trade Organization decision on biotechnology applied to agricultural products, finally released earlier this month, elicited a great deal of buzz throughout the business, financial and biotech communities. Most analyses scored it a resounding victory for the United States and its co-complainants, and a stinging defeat for European protectionism. The reality is that […]
“Currently, the ESA offers landowners a very perverse incentive. Find an endangered species on your property and you will lose the right to use the property should that species come to the attention of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The landowner’s incentive is to eliminate the species and keep quiet about it, a practice so […]
“No one disputes that there are circumstances in which people have a fundamental right to assert a moral or religious objection to performing duties — such as military service — and thus cannot be pressed by law into performing them. The problem lies in sorting out who can opt out and when. Consider, through that […]
“A while ago my husband came home shaking and shivering uncontrollably, claiming he had the stomach flu. Although it was a warm evening, he was very cold. He put on fleece gloves and thick socks and buried himself under layers of blankets and comforters, still shivering intensely and breathing shallowly. … Then I remembered a […]
“Gov. Phil Bredesen’s heart is in the right place. Inspired by recent numbers indicating that Tennessee is No. 3 in the country in obesity — a condition that contributes in large part to diabetes and heart disease — he’s urging ‘personal responsibility. … There’s no pill to make someone push their plate back or take […]
