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,...
read moreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that, despite claims by some that the water has been polluted by gas drilling, extensive tests in the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock found it safe. read...
read moreA cap and trade system for carbon dioxide has been a terrific flop; even proponents are leery that it is just another layer of bureaucracy and the only economic benefits have been of the economic voodoo kind, similar to a federal stimulus package that went primarily to state and municipal union employees were called 'jobs saved' in a brilliant bit of marketing.Why would anyone want to export that...
read moreDid an environmental issue disappear because activist groups got a check? It would seem so. The National Resources Defenses Council and Santa Monica Baykeeper sued the city of Malibu in 2008 for 'groundwater' pollution.The settlement they reached? Malibu has to 'fix' 17 drains, easy enough to rationalize since water can pick up garbage as it falls due to that nature thing that...
read moreThe old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, a picture is worth millions. Millions of tons of carbon dioxide that could be saved if we stopped throwing food into landfills, that is.Food waste is a pet peeve of mine. Yes, we do it at my house, probably way too much, but there is only so much nagging one can do. I don't have the yard space to do...
read moreWe're hearing a lot about the failures of government and I am on that bandwagon - chronic runaway spending, the foolishness with Gibson guitars, delays for an energy project that helps poor people and lowers emissions, and I was one of only about four people critical of government bailouts but now a group of people on Wall Street have gotten downright conservative in their approach to what...
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