Opinion
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High-Speed California Trains Spark Environmentalist Infighting
Opinion -Plans to transform California’s transportation network by adding high-speed trains throughout the state have run into opposition from environmental activists. -
Oregon Governor Reverse Course on Renewable Power
Opinion -Reversing course on a policy strongly supported by environmental activists, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D) has announced his support for cutting runaway subsidies for wind and solar power projects. -
Ohio Professional Geologists Reject Warming Alarmism
Opinion -The Ohio Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists has adopted a position statement rejecting global warming alarmism and calling on Congress to defeat legislation aimed at restricting carbon dioxide emissions. -
Solar Industry Catching Heat over Toxic Metal
Opinion -The European Union is considering legislation to pressure the solar power industry to phase out the use of cadmium. -
Yucca Mountain Decision Ignores Science
Opinion -Roger Henning, Ph.D., the onsite technical manager at Nuclear & Regulatory Support Services LLC, is a longtime friend and colleague of mine with great experience and expert knowledge of nuclear energy and waste disposal. -
Insurers, Regulators Spar Over Hurricane Risks
Opinion -Living under the constant specter of a major storm event, property insurers have been struggling to make money providing insurance coverage for wind damage in high-risk areas, where chances of profit are low and political scrutiny is high. -
U.N. Panel Relied on Fraudulent Temperature Data
Opinion -Researchers at the heart of the Climategate scandal tampered with Russian temperature data to assert far more warming in recent years than actually has occurred, according to the Russian Institute for Economic Analysis. -
Fact Battles Faith in Global Warming Debate
Opinion -Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series by Walter Cunningham, pilot of the Apollo 7 space mission, who has a master’s degree in physics. Cunningham has served on the Advisory Board for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-2
Opinion -A woman who injured herself learning how to pole dance is suing the New York gym that gave her lessons. She claims the gym failed to supervise the class properly. -
Smoking Ban Health Miracle Is a Myth
Opinion -“Heart attacks plummet after smoking ban” declared the UK’s Sunday Times, as it reported that England’s smoking ban has “caused a fall in heart attack rates of about 10 per cent. -
Innovation Drives Markets and the Maker of Financial Futures
Opinion -Review of For Crying Out Loud: From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen, by Leo Melamed(Wiley, 2009, 343 pages, $39. -
Ocean Acidification Scare Pushed at Copenhagen
Opinion -With global temperatures continuing their decade-long decline and United Nations-sponsored global warming talks falling apart in Copenhagen, alarmists at the U.N. -
Florida Lawmakers Go from Opposing to Approving Huge Rail Deal
Opinion -The most expensive rail deal in U.S. history has become law in Florida. Critics charge the price was vastly inflated. -
New Bill Aims to Help Florida Insurance Companies and Customers
Opinion -Florida State Representative Bill Proctor (R-St. Augustine) and Florida State Senator Bill Bennett (R-Bradenton) recently revived their efforts at deregulating property insurance rates in the Sunshine State. -
Climategate Scandal Deals Blow to Global Warming Fears
Opinion -A series of e-mails between scientists who serve as gatekeepers for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leaked from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has caused a firestorm of controversy that has yet to -
Global Warming Bills Hold Unpleasant Secrets
Opinion -There are a few things the supporters of the House and Senate climate bills apparently do not want you to know. Consider the following.Property Rights DeniedSection 721 of both bills denies property right status to tradable allowances and offset credits. -
Federal Government Role in Insurance Could Increase Greatly
Opinion -Insurance remains the largest area of economic activity regulated entirely at the state level, but that may change this year. -
Law Firms Seek Cut of State Pension Litigation
Opinion -The collapse of investment portfolios has securities law firms trolling for clients eager to sue over lost money, with state pension funds becoming major plaintiff targets for the high-flying litigation shops—and state officials are benefiting from -
Residential’s Bad, but Commercial Real Estate’s Worse in NYC
Opinion -“Yikes! What a year. -
Washington State Agencies Ignoring Money-Saving Law
Opinion -Washington lawmakers again face a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. -
SarbOx Might Be Coming to an End
Opinion -Prospects for substantial relief from or repeal of one of the most burdensome corporate regulations in recent memory have suddenly grown in Congress and in a constitutional challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Financial Transaction Tax Idea Gets Mixed Response
Opinion -After a year of multibillion-dollar bailouts of large Wall Street firms through programs such as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), many federal lawmakers are looking for payback from the financial industry. -
Livability Initiative Stirs Debate
Opinion -The National Journal’s Transportation blog—a pretty accurate reflection of the concerns and preoccupations du jour of the transportation community—has recently featured a debate about "livability. -
States Target Health Providers, Hospitals for Federal Medicaid Match
Opinion -A second economic stimulus plan may soon be on the table, but a new Tax Foundation analysis shows several states are taking advantage of one provision of the first stimulus bill—increased federal matching rates for Medicaid—at the expense of