politics
-
![]()
![]()
Maine governor on BPA: ‘Worst case is that some women may have little beards’
Image: JMS BoggioPaul LePage, governor of Maine, is pretty confident that nothing can harm him as long as he doesn’t know sh*t about dick. Here’s his scientific assessment of the dangers of plastic additive bisphenol A: “Quite frankly, the science that I’m looking at says there is no [problem],” LePage said. “There hasn’t been any […]
-
![]()
![]()
Life under the leadership of budget axe-man Hal Rogers
In case you haven’t heard, dozens of proposed amendments to the House Budget Bill would strip EPA of funding to update and enforce safeguards for mountaintop-removal mines, coal ash storage ponds, and emissions of hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants. If these amendments are approved, House Republicans would successfully turn back the clock on […]
-
Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow want to destroy tomorrow
How self-destructively anti-science are the next generation of conservatives? The New Republic’s Bradford Plumer visited the booths at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in DC and reported this: The Collegians For a Constructive Tomorrow let passersby hurl eggs at pinup photos of Al Gore and Penn State paleoclimatologist Michael Mann; I saw one girl […]
-
![]()
![]()
Is China's quasi-dictatorship better prepared for the 21st century than our mess of a democracy?
China is a nation ruled by engineers with a steely-eyed determination to vanquish us in the race for clean energy. How can a democracy beholden to corporate interests and besieged by politicians in deep denial about the shape of the 21st century possibly keep up?
-
![]()
![]()
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, Obama moves to the right on regulation
In today's Wall Street Journal, President Obama embraces a conservative frame for the coming discussion about the role of regulation.
-
![]()
![]()
Weed is OK but raw milk is not, says one California county
Humboldt County may be the marijuana capital of America, but it has no intention of becoming a mecca for another controversial natural product: unpasteurized milk.
-
![]()
![]()
House GOP drops word 'organic' from committee charged with oversight
New GOP leaders of the House Agriculture Committee are dropping the word "organic" from the name of the subcommittee charged with oversight of the national program. Not a good sign.
-
![]()
![]()
New York’s fracking ban is a mixed bag
New York Gov. David Paterson this weekend banned high-volume fracking in his state til July. Green groups are pleased but worried about a loophole.
-
USDA chief visits with Stephen Colbert, brings cheese
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack makes an appearance on the Colbert Report, parries the comedian's pointed policy questions, and delivers a strangely familiar cheese sculpture.
