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Navy can use sonar despite risk of whale harm, says Supreme Court
Photo: bbum In a big setback for whales and environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court has yanked restrictions on sonar use in Navy training exercises near the California coast. The court, which split 5-4, didn’t quibble with the Navy’s own estimates that sonar can lead to substantial and irreparable harm to whales. However, the majority opinion […]
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Obama on Grist
Just for kicks, I went and searched for the very first mention of Obama’s name on Grist. It came on 27 July 2004, the day of Obama’s fateful speech to the Democratic National Convention, in a dispatch from Mary Sullivan, a delegate. This is what she said: Most inspiring was Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic candidate […]
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New New Deal
The Campaign for America’s Future on the possibility of a new New Deal:
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A very long review of Friedman’s latest book
Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded condenses much of what has been written in blogs, science journals, and books about the “Energy-Climate-Era,” as he calls it. Though he’s a little late out off the starting blocks, Friedman’s contribution has great value, because it will reach people who only read books on bestseller lists — and then […]
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Friday music blogging: The Knux
I used to be quite enthusiastic about hip-hop, but in the last five or so years it just seems to have gotten pretty crappy — more and more simplistic ring-toney bluster and less and less creativity. (You kids get off my lawn!) I rarely have the patience to wade through new stuff to find what’s […]
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Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts hit a costly snag
It seems that in the fraying marshes of southern Louisiana, we can’t afford to maintain both shipping and coastal restoration at the same time. Louisiana’s biggest freshwater diversion project — essentially, a set of gates in the Mississippi River levees that let river water to flow over marshlands, depositing much-needed silt — must be closed […]
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Hurricane Ike cleanup still ongoing
Nearly two months after Hurricane Ike reared its head on the Texas and Louisiana coast, workers are still cleaning up what may be a record amount of debris. The wee bright side: only some 15 percent of the wreckage is headed to the landfill, while the rest is reused or recycled.
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‘Poor quality control’ in nuclear construction? Heaven forfend.
“Although the technical issues vary, inspections repeatedly identify a lack of contractor oversight and poor quality control in concrete placement.” — the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a report about problems at the Savannah River nuclear plant
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Smarter children more likely to vote green as adults, says study
Children with higher IQs are more likely to vote for Britain’s Green Party when they grow up, according to new research in the journal Intelligence. source: <a href="
