“It’s red mangrove trees versus greenhouse gases at the Super Bowl in Miami Sunday. The National Football League is hoping to tackle the game’s heat-trapping gas emissions by planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida, but the plan could be more of an incomplete pass than a touchdown when it comes to global […]
“One of the foreign firms leasing the Indiana Toll Road is drawing suspicion from some Texans after announcing plans to acquire a chain of small newspapers there. Australia-based Macquarie Media Group last week said it will pay $80 million for American Consolidated Media, which publishes 40 community newspapers and shopping publications serving nine communities in […]
“Democrats who control Congress turned up the heat on President Bush’s global warming policy Tuesday at an oversight hearing where witnesses claimed White House political operatives stifled government scientific findings on climate change and other topics. ‘Without strong action to restore integrity to federal science, our nation will be ill prepared to deal with the […]
“[D]oes home power generation make sense? Due to the high duty cycle and large scale of operation, it can pay to build a centralized power plant that maximizes efficiency at the cost of huge capital outlay. It is unrealistic to expect mass produced home generators to achieve the 60% efficiency achieved at the better generating […]
“In a quarter-page advertorial in Thursday’s New York Times, ExxonMobil launched a new greenwashing campaign to salvage its earned reputation as Earth’s number one global warming villain. For over a decade the giant oil company has waged a successful multi-million dollar propaganda campaign to deceive the public about global warming. Using phony think tanks like […]
“Last week Bush proposed something environmentalists, energy analysts, greenhouse-effect researchers, and national-security experts have spent 20 years pleading for: a major strengthening of federal mileage standards for cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The No. 1 failing of U.S. energy policy is that vehicle mile-per-gallon standards have not been made stricter in two decades. Nothing the […]
“[I]nstead of educating or serving a legitimate consumers’ ‘right to know’ certain information, mandatory labels on food from cloned animals would imply a warning, or at least would be misconstrued by some consumers as a suggestion that food from cloned animals differs in an important way (such as safety or nutrition) although it does not. […]
“President Bush made two bold health policy proposals in his State of the Union message. First, he proposed to replace the existing system of tax subsidies for private health insurance with a standard health deduction (like the standard deduction for dependents). In the process, he would level the playing field between health insurance […]
“Are the media capable of providing accurate and complete coverage of issues of public importance? Consider the coverage of President Bush’s State of the Union address. Forget the endless commentaries about the President’s demeanor and the congressional reaction. What did the President actually say? Did journalists recognize and report that President Bush, in an unprecedented […]
“President Bush’s health plan, unveiled in his State of the Union address, is one more illustration of the folly of attempting heath reform piecemeal. Bush would end the current tax deduction for employer-provided health coverage, and substitute a personal deduction — $7,500 for an individual and $15,000 for a family. … The plan, if enacted, […]
