“Scientists have found what might have been the ideal ancient vacation hotspot with a 74-degree Fahrenheit average temperature, alligator ancestors and palm trees. It’s smack in the middle of the Arctic. First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole […]
“judge has ruled the federal government must halt studies of threatened and endangered Steller sea lions because it did not properly asses how certain research techniques might harm the animals. The National Marine Fisheries Service approved permits for research activities that include hot branding and tissue sampling of thousands of sea lions each year, said […]
“The Lower Loup Natural Resources District (NRD) will be conducting a Columbus-area aquifer study in response to rising nitrate levels in the water. Larry Schultz, information education coordinator for the Lower Loup NRD, said areas of high nitrate concentration were found within a small strip of land, so more than 220 wells south of Shell […]
“The problem with using pollution tax revenues to pay the victims for the damages they incur, is that the compensation creates the incentive for the victim to bear more damages. Think of it this way. When victims are deciding whether to move or not, they perform a cost benefit analysis. The benefits […]
“I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Peak oil is not going to vouchsafe clean-energy outcomes. Peak oil’s primary short-term effect will be to sharply increase demand for coal. Coal to make electricity. Coal to make ethanol. Coal to make heating oil and diesel. Coal, coal, coal. It might solve the energy-supply problem, but […]
“The state picked up 13,000 tons of litter from roadways last year. This year, Tennessee expects to spend $6 million to collect garbage, much of it carelessly dumped by motorists and others. It’s figures like those that prompted the Tennessee Department of Transportation this week to launch a new anti-litter campaign, the first of its […]
“If gas breaking the $3/gallon barrier could dominate the evening news and send Congress into a frenzy, imagine Americans’ horror if oil, now $75/barrel, suddenly tops $200. Neither our political will nor our wallets are prepared, but a few stalled SUVs may be the least of our concerns if the U.S. makes good on its […]
“Facts are stubborn things. So are cherished beliefs — especially when they’re shared by adversaries who, for reasons of their own, find them too convenient to shed. And among the greatest of our shared delusions is the belief that high oil prices accomplish something. They don’t. Fortunately, there is a way to ease the crisis: […]
“The conversation-canceling cacophony came welling up from Beacon Street, a rolling, rumbling thunder that soon grew to sound like the father of all freight trains barrelling by. The source of the racket? Scores of motorcycles, coming two abreast, carrying riders bound for the State House to lobby for repeal of the state’s helmet law. As […]
“In March, Governor Bredesen unveiled ‘Cover Tennessee,’ a new healthcare experiment to insure 600,000 uninsured Tennesseans. Unfortunately, the plan ill expand the power of government and insurance companies while doing little to improve care for the uninsured. The Bredesen plan proposes $1,800 a year policies equally funded by employees, employers and taxpayers. … Bredesen also […]
