“Final approvals have been given for Australia’s fourth uranium mine, the Honeymoon project, in South Australia’s north-east. The South Australian Environmental Protection Authority has issued a licence to Southern Cross Resources to operate at the site, 80 kilometres north-west of Broken Hill. The licence allows uranium to be extracted using a technique known as acid […]
“Environmentalists, health advocates and the City of Chicago scored a victory this week when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overturned a state permit for a coal-fired power plant in Will County. The federal agency’s Environmental Appeals Board late Wednesday issued a 122-page order that sent the plant permit back to the Illinois EPA. As a […]
“Canada’s fight against global warming has been a losing battle with an unknown price-tag that could leave taxpayers on the hook for up to $1 billion in subsidies for polluting companies, according to the federal commissioner of the environment. But commissioner Johanne Gelinas issues a call for the Stephen Harper government not to abandon progress […]
“The Bush administration has no plans to ease its opposition to national limits on greenhouse gas output despite talk that a change may be under consideration, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday. ‘The president has said continually said that one of reasons he doesn’t like a mandated cap is because it has the potential […]
“Some of the best-known laptops are contaminated with some of the worst toxic chemicals. Of the five top brands we tested Hewlett-Packard and Apple laptops showed the worst contamination levels. An independant Danish laboratory tested for the presence of several toxic chemicals, including brominated flame retardants (BFRs), polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC), and even lead, in […]
“Here is the bottom line on crop-based biofuels, and I am not alone in this assessment (for once) — Monbiot and Brown share my concerns. You have to replace on the world market every grain or bean you stop exporting and instead feed to an American car. Regardless of what others were using that grain […]
“Urban sprawl is a phenomenon that many people love to hate. Surprisingly, there is little systematic evidence on how much sprawl there is or what causes it. Recent research by Burchfield et al. (2006) goes far in illuminating both of these issues. The authors base their definition of urban sprawl on the average proportion of […]
“Not far from Pima Road, there is a place where saguaros still stand thick and stately, almost as if they belong. Where chollas still shimmer in the sunlight for mile after mile, uninterrupted by the unrelenting march of the inevitable brown house. There is nothing easy about this land. It juts and jars and dips […]
“An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), former Vice President Al Gore’s book on ‘The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be done about it,’ purports to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common sense. In reality, An Inconvenient Truth is a colorfully illustrated lawyer’s brief for global warming alarmism and energy […]
“Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for the poor and near poor, is the largest single expenditure by state governments today. At the rate the program is growing, it is on a course to consume the entire budgets of state governments in just a few decades. Although Medicaid is commonly assumed to be a […]
