The Hazardous Waste Of Solar Panels
There is a good reason I was not a fan of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's nationalistic claim that we are in a 'race' to beat China in creating cheap solar panels. read...
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Care About Sustainable Food? Add Bug Larvae To Your Diet
When people talk about sustainable food in 2013, they really mean something with an 'organic' label that they can attribute all kinds of other ethical and environmental traits to - sustainable food the way those people mean it is not sustainable at all, there is no way organic food can feed anyone except the rich 1% (the economically rich and the food gentry lucky enough to be born into...
read moreDo You Choose Organic Food Or Green Energy?
Which do you love more, organic food or green energy? Because you may have to choose.Oregon is the site of a conflict between food and energy, though it is a state that claims it loves both - but the people who love each primarily do so because it makes them money. You really can't love both anyway, because environmental activists are in a never-ending war against the bulk of society and...
read moreDoes American Exceptionalism Apply To The US SuperFund Law?
Can you be liable for damages if you didn't mean to do it? Can the pollution laws of one country be enforced in another? When it comes to politics and the environment, laws really only count when they are on your side, as we saw when Germans ironically declared it wrong for an American to dump iron dust in the ocean for a geo-engineering experiment, yet the same loophole was completely ethical...
read moreEPA Says Water Is A Pollutant?
The EPA has declared water, the substance the Clean Water Act was created to protect, a pollutant - and it is getting the federal government dragged into court. read...
read moreEPA Told Once Again To Create Policies Based On Actual Science Evidence
The Environmental Protection Agency can’t win in modern culture – the left thinks they are shills for Big Frack while the right complains they try to end-run Congress and the public by implementing business regulations rather than environmental ones. One lesson they should learn; unless you can get into the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, broadly-drafted regulations are going to fail,...
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