Uncategorized
All Stories
-
Friday music blogging: Q-Tip
A Tribe Called Quest is one of a small class of hip-hop groups that is beloved by absolutely everyone — rap purists, bohemians, and of course whitey suburbanites. Speaking of that latter demographic, I fell in love with Tribe in college via their stone classic The Low End Theory, which remains one of my all-time […]
-
Republicans refuse bailout; Obama wants auto czar
Looks like there will be no auto bailout with this Congress and this president. The NYT reports today: The prospects of a government rescue for the foundering American automakers dwindled Thursday as Democratic Congressional leaders conceded that they would face potentially insurmountable Republican opposition during a lame-duck session next week. Nor does it appear that […]
-
Boat owners abandoning boats in droves, vessels leaking oil, pollutants
Owners of both commercial and recreational boats have been abandoning their vessels in droves as a poor economy, high fuel prices, poor fishing, and bad resale values have prompted them to put the boats down and back away slowly. Abandoned boats around the country have begun to clog waterways and some have become toxic messes […]
-
ProPublica investigation: Is natural gas drilling endangering U.S. water supplies?
This article, written by reporter Abrahm Lustgarten, was published by ProPublica.org. A version of it also ran on BusinessWeek’s website. In July, a hydrologist dropped a plastic sampling pipe 300 feet down a water well in rural Sublette County, Wyo., and pulled up a load of brown oily water with a foul smell. Tests showed […]
-
The green scoop on Obama’s Cabinet and administration picks and prospects
Lisa Jackson. EPA Administrator: Lisa Jackson (not officially announced) Background on Jackson. Some enviros have been critical of Jackson — get the story. Steven Chu. Secretary of Energy: Steven Chu (not officially announced) Background on Chu. Watch Chu talk about climate change and renewable energy. Carol Browner. Energy Czar: Carol Browner (not officially announced) Background […]
-
Hey
Go vote in our EPA poll! (FYI, Dan Esty is winning in a landslide. Dan, did you tell your students to come rock the vote?)
-
Air pollution in California costly and deadly, study says
The polluted air in Los Angeles and California’s San Joaquin Valley costs residents and government some $28 billion annually in health-care and other expenses and kills more people than all the car accidents in those areas, according to a study by researchers at California State University, Fullerton.
-
