Opinion
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Farm Bureau responds to ‘corn con’
Opinion -In May, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial alleging that producing ethanol requires more energy than is released when the fuel is burned, suggesting the entire ethanol industry is a government-subsidized boondoggle. -
Daschle thwarts ANWR vote, unveils own proposal
Opinion -Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) successfully thwarted efforts for the full Senate to vote on an energy plan before the year 2001 came to an end. -
Who needs higher energy taxes?
Opinion -The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has announced its intent to "develop strategies to trim potentially huge financial losses that are expected to follow implementation of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. -
Chemical toxicity: A matter of massive miscalculation
Opinion -An introduction to toxicology The toxicology testing laboratory dates back to the 1930s, but the science of toxicology in the United States can be traced more realistically to the formation of the Society of Toxicology in 1961. -
Long-anticipated energy crisis: Has it arrived?
Opinion -The last 100 years are often referred to by historians as the “American Century,” due primarily to the country’s rise to world leadership and military dominance. -
EPA retreats; media hardly notices
Opinion -Despite devoting thousands of page one headlines and countless feature stories to “soaring gasoline prices” and Clinton-Gore administration claims of price gouging by oil companies, the nation’s print media paid scant attention to -
No easy alternatives to internal combustion engine
Opinion -As Vice President and Presidential candidate Al Gore was reiterating his controversial call for “phasing out” the internal combustion engine in less than 25 years, the Energy Information Administration, a department of the -
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. -
EPA: Gas additive is a pollutant
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Attacks on the environment
Opinion -Throughout the primary season, nearly every Presidential aspirant attacked nearly every other on their “environmental” record. -
Spending the Surplus
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration has proposed $42.5 billion in spending on environmental projects as part of the FY2001 budget—an increase of 11 percent over last year, and a 35 percent increase from when they took office in 1993. -
Environment issues: Where the candidates stand
Opinion -While the leading Presidential candidates haven’t said a great deal about their positions on such key environment issues as global warming and private property protections, the early primaries and caucuses have forced them to tip their hands at least a -
McCain Takes On Teacher Unions
Opinion -In a major education speech in Spartanburg, South Carolina on February 10, Republican presidential candidate John McCain renewed his call for a massive national voucher experiment, and then delivered a stinging attack against the teacher unions and -
Engineering for a better tree
Opinion -According to Science News, wood harvested from trees that have been genetically engineered could make paper less costly and more environmentally friendly to produce. Vincent L. -
EPA Ignored Its Own Scientists on MTBE
Opinion -When an EPA-appointed blue-ribbon panel announced last summer it was recommending that use of the gasoline additive MTBE be "reduced substantially," the curtain began falling on one of the most bizarre--and avoidable--missteps in recent U.S. -
Cut Subsidies to Pay for Vouchers, Says McCain
Opinion -As if his advocacy of school vouchers hadn’t made him enough enemies in the teacher unions, GOP Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain stirred up even more in a recent speech to veterans. -
Analysis: Energy in the Twenty-First Century
Opinion -Fossil fuels, once thought by many to be nearing depletion, are in fact becoming more abundant and environmentally sustainable, according to a recent Cato Institute policy analysis. -
Better Engines
Opinion -Emissions testing and oxygenated gasoline, key components of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program to reduce auto emissions, have recently been shown to have little value in reducing automobile pollution. -
Analysis: Reformulated Gas: EPA Didn’t Do its Homework
Opinion -In taking the Hippocratic oath, fledgling physicians solemnly pledge they will, “First, do no harm. -
U.S. Economy Threatened by Global Warming ‘Baptists’ and ‘Bootleggers’
Opinion -When the general public, looking through the prism of the American media, look at the Kyoto Protocol, what do they see? Nothing more than a well-intentioned worldwide effort to reduce the greenhouse gases thought to be responsible for global warming. -
MTBE: Refiners Damned If They Use It, Damned If They Don’t
Opinion -California gasoline refiners, distributors, and retailers have found themselves in an impossible situation as a result of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to do its homework on MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether). -
Kyoto Protocol: Hazardous to Your Health?
Opinion -The Kyoto Protocol--designed to protect humans and the environment from the effects of global warming--could cause as many as 183,000 deaths in the United States alone because of increased highway fatalities, worsened indoor air pollution, and -
Politics Slows Development of Climate-friendly Technologies
Opinion -For many U.S. industries, uncertainty over how to address the global climate change issue is one of the largest business risks they face.