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California’s air-quality enforcers miss an opportunity
By: Thomas Tanton on 10.2.2008
If someone tells you that you can get something for nothing, you might ask that person if that’s a subprime mortgage security he or she is selling -- or whether they work for the California Air Resources Board.
Eco Group Calls for Oil Recovery
By: Thomas Tanton on 9.1.2008
The press for more offshore drilling has opened a rift among California environmentalists. Many are calling for increased oil recovery to reduce the amount of natural oil seepage, while others continue to fear the risk of major spills.
Global Warming Activists Press Anti-Meat Campaign
By: Krystle Russin on 9.1.2008
Global warming activists are putting agriculture firmly in their crosshairs, launching new efforts to restrict meat production and consumption.
New York State Investigates Wind Companies for Improper Business and Political Dealings
By: Thomas Tanton on 9.1.2008
New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo (D) has opened an investigation into two companies developing and operating wind farms in the state.
Wind Power Pollution
By: Jack Sullivan on 8.25.2008
They say let us clear the air together, do they mean let us befoul the North Country? The wind industry's development of a giant industrial complex aka a "wind farm" produces large amounts of greenhouse gases as well as significant mercury pollution.
Little Rhetoric Riding Hood
By: George F. Will on 8.24.2008
Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should be Rumpelstiltskin. He spun straw into gold, a skill an Obama administration will need to fulfill its fairy-tale promises.
Shill Here, Shill Now
By: David Weigel on 8.15.2008
"I taught in the second Earth Day," Newt Gingrich recalled in Real Change, published in January, the most recent of his annual, not-quite-consistent handbooks for conservatives. As gas prices hovered around $3 per gallon, Gingrich told good men of either party to look at tax credits for companies that curb their pollution, or for homeowners who slap solar panels on their roofs, or for drivers who get rid of their gas-guzzlers.
Brown Blocks Bottled Water Over Global Warming
By: Thomas Tanton on 8.14.2008
On July 29, California’s Attorney General Jerry Brown said he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California, unless its effects on global warming are evaluated.
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
By: Krystle Russin on 8.1.2008
Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day.
Prosperity, growth improving our environment
7.29.2008
Here’s good news that may have escaped attention. The environment worldwide is getting better and better, largely because of economic growth, efficiency and innovation. So says the 2008 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, an annual report on worldwide air and water quality and climate change by the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco free-market think tank.
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