Opinion
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Droughting the forecast
Opinion -As we headed through spring, concern was growing that the Midwest was sitting on the brink of a major drought. -
Toxic Release Inventory Data Issued
Opinion -EPA released its 1998 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data May 11, 2000. -
School Choice Surges in the States
Opinion -"What is the problem [in American education]? We have not devised a method to make learning occur at a universally high level. And that's what the voucher people argue. They argue that is because public schools have a monopoly on revenues and customers. -
Governors, Congress Support Biotech Industry
Opinion -In June, Environment & Climate News reported a new $50 million effort launched by the biotechnology industry to educate the public about the advantages and safety of bioengineered products. -
Jimmying the Truth about Climate Change
Opinion -On April 18, 2000, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator James Baker and Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) Director James Lee Witt held a press conference where they released data showing that the period -
Don’t let global warming bug you!
Opinion -Chaos theory holds that the flutter of a butterfly’s wings can have far-reaching effects. So, too, can increasing plant defense mechanisms, upsetting the natural order of things and threatening innocent species with extinction. -
Uncle Sam sues Uncle Sam over air pollution
Opinion -Nearly every day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces a new lawsuit or administrative action against an alleged industrial polluter. -
Will Ohio’s Children Benefit from the DeRolph Ruling?
Opinion -How have children fared following other lawsuits like Ohio's DeRolph, where courts have deemed unconstitutional disparities between public schools that result from different levels of local spending by districts? -
PDK Poll: Teachers Out of Sync With Public
Opinion -Although a recent poll of Massachusetts residents indicated teachers and their families were supportive of school vouchers, the sixth Phi Delta Kappa Poll of Teachers' Attitudes Toward the Public Schools showed only 16 percent of teachers favoring -
Detroit’s Soaring Graduation Rate Questioned
Opinion -According to figures submitted to Michigan's state Department of Education by Detroit Public Schools officials, Interim Superintendent David Adamany has worked a major miracle during his brief tenure as head of the city's 167,000-student system. -
Heritage Foundation offers timely advice to political candidates
Opinion -The Washington, DC-based Heritage Foundation has recently released its Issues 2000 — The Candidate’s Briefing Book, a massive tome offering careful analysis of more than a dozen key public policy issues facing candidates in the November election. -
Destination Milwaukee: Making the Pilgrimage
Opinion -In the not-so-distant past, Schlitz claimed it was the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Today, it's not the beer but school choice that has made Milwaukee famous again. -
SRN Just the Facts: Homeschooling
Opinion -Only 3 percent of the nation's 53 million schoolchildren are taught at home, compared to almost 90 percent who are educated in public schools. Yet homeschoolers won the top three places in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on June 1. -
Finding a School
Opinion -Looking up a school in the phone book has always been a frustrating task. The school could be listed in the white pages under its actual name, or under the name of the school district, the city, or the county, or under "Government Agencies. -
Better green than red
Opinion -In literally hundreds of experiments conducted around the world, the major food crops of China have been shown to produce substantial improvements in yield and water use efficiency thanks to elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). -
Forest Service releases impact statement for roadless ban
Opinion -The U.S. Forest Service released on May 9 its proposed Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) regarding the Clinton-Gore administration’s plan to ban road construction on up to 60 million acres of National Forests. -
Summer Suboptimum
Opinion -Like moths to flame, a few climate scientists and many enviropoliticos are irresistibly drawn to pronouncements of record high temperatures. -
07/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * Connecticut * Hawaii * Illinois * Massachusetts Mississippi * Missouri * New Jersey * North Dakota * Ohio * South Carolina CALIFORNIA Tax Break Could Hurt Private Schools Democrat Governor Gray Davis' proposal to exempt -
ALEC: Different Approach Needed for Better Schools
Opinion -"If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting." Robert L. -
Let us use some common sense here
Opinion -Summary: In this speech by the Hon. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida, 6th District) addressing the House of Representatives states that we should preserve freedom and not follow the dictates of the Earth First! -
MTBE ban proposed in Michigan
Opinion -The Michigan legislature has taken up a bill that would ban the water-polluting gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). Introduced by Rep. -
New voice on the environmental left
Opinion -A potentially powerful news organization has been launched to spread the message of the left-wing environmental movement. Verde Media has been established, according to founder and chairman, Peek Garlington III, to be “. . . -
Playing the numbers with climate model accuracy
Opinion -Those who proudly claim their climate models duplicate reality, provided [insert your favorite caveat here], have been irritated by one particularly nasty thorn. (And no, we’re not talking about Environment & Climate News. -
Private conservation: An environmental success story
Opinion -Expressing his support for an Interior Department proposal to create three new National Monuments and expand a fourth monument in the West, President Clinton late last year proclaimed, "giving these lands National Monument status would ensure they will
