| May 21, 2014 | Environment / HealthHypothetical conundrums can provide valuable learning experiences for students of corporate management and ethics. Consider this one: Suppose you’re a corporate chieftain who’s a free-enterprise fundamentalist, despising government regulation, taxation,...
| Apr 23, 2014 | Environment / HealthWe only have a few decades to deal with climate change. If humanity fails to cut back dramatically on carbon emissions by 2050, according to an alarming new UN report, our planet may warm past the point of our ability to fix the problem. Given global dependence on...
| Apr 9, 2014 | Environment / HealthBen Franklin said it best — nothing is certain, “except death and taxes.” Like most Americans, we submit our 1040s to maintain the health of our nation. However, we’d personally rather decrease our income tax and instead pay a fee that reduces carbon...
| Feb 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthWhen the EPA opened a new comment period on Jan. 8 for the public to weigh in on proposed greenhouse gas limits for new coal-fired power plants, it didn’t take long for the overblown rhetoric denouncing President Barack Obama’s so-called “War on...
| Feb 12, 2014 | Environment / Health2014 has been a bad year for drinking water. First, a coal industry chemical spill left West Virginia residents in nine counties with water so polluted they could only use it to flush their toilets. And now 82,000 tons of coal ash have found their way into a river...
