Articles by JMG

Learn to look down the ballot — waaaaaay down

Here's a story that's all too common:

Right-wing dominated court; likes to pat itself on the back for being a "strict constructionalist" court that, regardless of its own justices' preferences, follows the commands of the legislature expressed in the plain words of the statutes. No "judge-made law" here, just the power of the people expressed through their elected representatives.

Except not.

Michigan's Environmental Policy Act gave "any person" the right to sue over environmental damages, allowing people to act as citizen attorneys-general because, as the pols in the 1970s recognized, elected AGs and appointed state bureaucrats often aren't actually all that interested in confronting contribution-wielding polluters.

So, this year, the Michigan Supreme Court GOP majority took off its strict constructionalist hat and donned its liberal interpretation hat to decide that, well, "any person" doesn't mean what you might think it means.

Now that’s a 12-step program

A hopeful press release touting an even more hopeful (wishful?) report:

Clever video

A short video -- proof that ingenuity is alive and well:

Having survived Biosphere, she’s ready to enter the offset debate

A summary overview / intro to offsets by a woman who was one of the Biospherians.