Energy Beast Still Running Wild

Coal and oil May make a mess; But I still love them, I confess. There is doubtless some solace in learning that China is now the world’s top energy glutton. That takes a bit of the pressure off us. America’s slip to second place, however, isn’t due...

Denying Health Care to Americans is Un-American

Critical issues demand high levels of dialogue that political debate seldom provides. For instance, the profound legislative step forward of health care reform has been pounded with shallow, misleading attacks. There may be honest questions about plan’s specifics, but...

Monumental Wilderness

Environmentalists are ready to defend our country’s coastlines and wild places from a new Congress with the same old energy policy: Drill, baby, drill. Despite the lessons of the BP oil disaster, the Republicans who will soon control a House of Representatives...

This isn’t Sarah Palin’s Alaska

With the holidays upon us again, I think back with both pleasure and distress to the feast I was welcomed to a few seasons ago at the top of Alaska. The effects of climate change in polar regions are now starkly obvious–and they have consequences. Not so long...