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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?)
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Is defending an industry against modernity really good for it?
“The auto industry declined while [Dingell] was chairman, ranking member and chairman again. He said we should do nothing to modernize the auto industry. That kind of protection is why we lost out to the Japanese and why Detroit chose the wrong kind of cars to make.” — an unnamed “aide to a [Henry] Waxman […]
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Long-term study: GMOs lower fertility in mice
Under President Clinton, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) entered the U.S. food supply with very little public input or independent testing. The precautionary principle crumbled under the weight of industry influence; Clinton staffed the FDA with biotech-industry insiders like Michael Taylor, who has spent his long career bouncing between the government payroll and Monsanto’s. The official […]
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The demise of California’s Measure T is bad news for the environment
“Market failure” is one cause of environmental problems, but “democracy failure” is even worse. Russia and China aren’t the only examples. It also happens closer to home, as illustrated by last week’s decision by California’s Humboldt County to abandon Measure T, a local law banning non-local corporate money from local elections. For years Humboldt County, […]
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If we try cap-and-trade systems, we have to handle coal separately
Below is a first draft of an essay I’m formulating. I welcome comments and will post a revised draft after a while: Why we must be more concerned about capping emissions than trading them If there is one thing that the recent financial debacle should have taught us, it’s that risk cannot be managed by […]
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Tolls reduce congestion, but they price people off the roadway
Brilliant. That’s the word that kept crossing my mind as I read this clearly written report [PDF] about the Puget Sound Regional Council’s study on using road tolls to fight congestion. The study found that a well-designed, comprehensive system of congestion-busting tolls could make a major dent in traffic backups in the Puget Sound. It […]
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Bush admin takes first step toward new offshore drilling
The Bush administration took the first step toward new offshore drilling on Thursday, asking for public comments on a proposal to potentially open up an area to drilling some 50 miles off the Virginia coast. Even if leasing is ultimately approved, the area wouldn’t be leased until 2011 at the earliest, according to the Interior […]
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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.
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Nonbinding agreement reached to breach Klamath River dams by 2020
A nonbinding agreement is set to be signed today to breach four Klamath River dams by 2020 that have been messing with imperiled salmon. source:
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