| Apr 18, 2011 | Environment / HealthJust days after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami unleashed a nuclear disaster in Fukushima, President Barack Obama signed a nuclear power cooperation agreement with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. Like Japan, Chile is seismically active. It suffered the sixth-most...
| | Environment / HealthThe Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana one year ago, killing 11 crewmembers and ultimately releasing some 210 million gallons of oil. It became the largest oil disaster in American history. It could happen again. Keith Jones...
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| | Environment / HealthNukes sure make Electrons flow; But they also Make us glow. Supporters of nuclear power and nuclear weapons enjoy a number of intrinsic advantages over their opponents. The first is money. Atoms make for high stakes gambling. Anyone who wins a contract for bombs or...
| Mar 28, 2011 | Environment / HealthOccasionally, we Texans have a responsibility to explain our “Texanity” to befuddled out-of-staters. For example, you might’ve heard about Gov. Rick Perry, known for his chronic temper tantrums over Big Bad Government’s coercive intrusiveness...
| | Environment / Health“Let’s Save Nature!” Good advice; Unless we have To sacrifice. Protecting the environment has billions of supporters worldwide. Unfortunately, they’re not the people who count. Earth’s biggest polluter, for example, is the U.S. military....
