| Jun 11, 2012 | Environment / HealthHere’s some good news: the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new rule that would make coal-fired power plant operators clean up their act. It would block up to 123 billion pounds of carbon pollution annually from entering our skies by limiting...
| Apr 23, 2012 | Food / FarmingThe corporate propensity for rationalizing the irrational in the pursuit of profit appears to be boundless. Consider J.R. Simplot, a giant agribusiness conglomerate whose phosphate mining operations in Idaho have grossly polluted creeks with selenium, a highly toxic...
| Feb 6, 2012 | Environment / HealthFolks, I’ve got some good news and some bad news about the nation’s ever-elusive quest for a sound energy policy. The good news: Finally there’s some under-the-radar bipartisan consensus in Washington. The bad news: Both parties are dead wrong. This...
| Oct 10, 2011 | Environment / HealthWhen is it not enough to have too much? Apparently, when you’re a giant oil corporation. Big Oil’s avaricious honchos are always searching for another dime they can slip into their corporate pockets, no matter whom it hurts. A crude example of their...
| Jul 25, 2011 | Environment / HealthFlip on that switch, Who cares the source; We’ll get gouged For it, of course. Energy production is too vital to be left to private industry’s tender mercies. Therefore, sensible nations run that sector of the economy themselves. Unfortunately, there...
