Highway Funding Runs out of Gas

Highway Funding Runs out of Gas

Lawmakers writing the transportation spending bill have a problem. Actually they have 89 billion problems, because that’s how many dollars they are short between what they want to spend over the next six years and the revenue bean counters expect. Considering...
Koch Brothers Rev Up High-Octane Hypocrisy

Koch Brothers Rev Up High-Octane Hypocrisy

Hypothetical 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,...
Paying for the Climate Change Pivot

Paying for the Climate Change Pivot

We 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...
A Fossil-Fueled Bombshell

A Fossil-Fueled Bombshell

Royal Dutch Shell buried a bombshell in its recently released 2013 annual report. Amid 200 pages of predictably and mind-numbingly dry text, the world’s seventh-largest oil company foreshadowed something big. Here are the exact words, which Shell buried in the...