I trust you noticed that the Congress has now agreed to allow coal companies to dump their waste into your streams again. And I trust that you noticed that just today the guy you voted for rescinded part of a law which regulates banks, because, he said, “We expect to be cutting a lot out …
A pipeline which runs from Texas northeast to NYC sprung a leak in September and disrupted the flow of 1.3 million barrels of gasoline per day to drivers in the Southeast and possibly even further up the seaboard. That wasn’t enough, though. Part of the thing has now exploded in Alabama, several miles from the …
Apparently so. From a report by something called The International Fund for Animal Welfare: investigators compiled advertising and sales data from 47 Hawai‘i-based retailers and individual sellers engaged in the online trade of elephant ivory and related wildlife products, including walrus tusks, whale teeth and bone, mammoth ivory, and hippopotamus teeth. They found a total …
Remember this? Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to …
The Attorney General of the State of Michigan has just appointed a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit office to investigate the Flint water fiasco. As far as I know, Andy Arena is a good and honest man with no connections to the Governor, the Emergency Managers who decided to switch Flint’s …
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I have been reading this story with shock tempered by schadenfreude. If ever a Governor deserved the kicks Rick Snyder of Michigan is getting right now it’s him, unless it’s his neighbor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Look at the circumstances. Flint is a city in distress, with its industry gone and its tax base diminishing …
That’s what the Republicans in the House and Senate are. The Senators have voted and the Representatives are going to vote this week to “rebuke” President Obama for issuing executive orders instituting a Clean Power Plan for the nation. What on earth offends them so? The Clean Power Plan aims to dramatically boost U.S. energy …
The EPA has admitted it screwed up, inadvertently breaching a dam which had been holding up a toxic mess of waste water left over from a century of mine tailings. I’ve been wondering why the owners of the mines which left the stuff behind aren’t responsible for the cleanup that EPA was initiating, and this …
This is all very educational but when it goes out while dinner’s on your (electric) stove and stays out for 40 minutes, you don’t care where it comes from as long as it starts coming again!
The Republicans got the support of a dozen or so Democrats from red states (except Virginia’s Warner), but they fell one vote short of the number needed to pass legislation authorizing the construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada south through Nebraska and other Plains states to Houston, Tx. Good. It’s a short-term victory …