Opinion
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High-Speed Rail Proving Costly in California
Opinion -A California high-speed rail proposal approved by voters in 2008 has strayed so far above original cost estimates and so far under ridership estimates that one key transportation analyst is calling it the greatest scam to hit the state—ever. -
Brownback Urges Reforms to Preserve Ogallala Aquifer
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) is urging elimination of “use it or lose it” state mandates regarding water-use rights. -
Activists Move to Prevent Canada from Supplying U.S. with Oil
Opinion -Canada is eager to provide the United States with valuable oil from a friendly nation, but environmental activists are urging the Obama administration to block construction of an oil pipeline that would deliver the oil from western Canada to refineries -
Fracking Can Be Responsible, Says NY Enviro Commish
Opinion -New York Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens is spreading the word that natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing techniques can be environmentally responsible. -
Wyoming County Commissioners Call Halt to Wilderness Designations
Opinion -County commissioners in Park County, Wyoming have decided not to recommend any new county lands be designated as wilderness areas to be managed by the federal government through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). -
Forest Service Study Calls for Forest Thinning
Opinion -A new study from the U.S. Forest Service concludes extensive forest-thinning treatments are the most effective way to reduce intense wildfires in the western United States. -
Landmark Experiment Supports Cosmic-Ray Warming Theory
Opinion -Researchers at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland report new evidence supporting the theory that cosmic rays may increase the sun’s impact on global temperatures and climate. -
Domestic Fracking Enhances U.S. Security, Study Concludes
Opinion -The domestic production of natural gas from shale deposits, accomplished through hydraulic fracturing techniques, provides the United States with significant geopolitical benefits, concludes a study by energy experts at Rice University. -
Global Warming Causes UFO Attacks?
Opinion -The UK Guardian has published an article titled, “Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilizations, scientists say.” The subtitle is, “Rising greenhouse gas emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report. -
Feds Pull Plug on Wave Power Project
Opinion -The federal government has cancelled permits for a wave power project on the California coast that renewable power advocates had hailed as an alternative to conventional energy sources. -
Federal Officials Investigate Wind Farm Eagle Deaths
Opinion -Federal wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of at least six golden eagles at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Pine Tree Wind project 100 miles north of the city. -
Gates Foundation Funding Crop Improvements
Opinion -With malnutrition still a longstanding problem in many Third World nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding biofortification programs that promise to produce more nutritious food staples. -
Cold Killed Record Number of Florida Corals
Opinion -Corals off the coast of Florida died in record numbers in 2010 as a result of cold temperatures, scientists at the University of Miami report in the peer-reviewed science journal PLoS One. -
Obama Panel Champions Hydraulic Fracturing
Opinion -An Obama administration advisory panel is championing hydraulic fracturing as a natural gas production method. The advisory panel, in a draft report submitted Aug. 11 to the U.S. -
A Warmer Planet Is a More Peaceful Planet
Opinion -A new report published August 24 by Nature magazine claims "global climate is a major factor in organized patterns of violence" around the world. -
New Report on Global Warming Contradicts U.N.’s IPCC
Opinion -The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new report co-produced by three -
GAO Finds Unintended Consequences of Horse Slaughter Ban
Opinion -A backdoor ban on horse slaughter in the United States, initially supported by animal rights groups, has backfired, with inhumane conditions becoming more prevalent, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study finds. -
A Nuclear Power Plant Cannot Produce a Nuclear Explosion
Opinion -Conventional power sources produce electricity by creating steam to power a turbine. The turbine is attached to an electrical generator which creates electricity. The heat that turns water into steam in most plants is created by burning fossil fuel. -
Florida PSC Scraps Costly Energy Conservation Program
Opinion -The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has pulled the plug on an aggressive—and expensive—plan by Florida Power & Light to prod its customers into meeting the company’s ambitious conservation goals. -
Floridians Fight Back Against EPA Water Nutrient Restrictions
Opinion -Burdened by a 10.6 percent unemployment rate and a collapsed housing market, Florida’s shaky economy now faces a new challenge: The Sunshine State is squarely in the bull’s eye of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory artillery. -
High Costs Preventing Conformance to Emergency Narrowband Deadline
Opinion -The Federal Communication Commission’s mandate that all U.S. emergency responder radios must switch to digital, narrowband systems by 2013 has prompted some local governments to complain the costs of complying are prohibitive. -
Record Number of Sea Turtles Counted in Texas
Opinion -A record number of nests of endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles have been counted along the Texas Gulf Coast this year, putting to rest fears that last year’s BP Gulf oil spill would further jeopardize the endangered turtles. -
RomneyCare Is No Model for the Nation
Opinion -Because President Obama’s health care law was partially modeled after Massachusetts’ 2006 health reforms, critics of the law have fixated on any piece of bad news they can find coming out of Massachusetts.RomneyCare does have numerous defects. -
ISPs To Monitor Online Copyright Infringment
Opinion -Five U.S. Internet service providers, partnering with Hollywood movie studios and record labels, will begin issuing online warnings to consumers sending or receiving pirated material.
