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EPA May Block Navajo Coal Site
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to review permits that would allow the Navajo Nation to build a clean-burning coal power plant on tribal lands in northwestern New Mexico. -
California Gas Stations Shut Under Expensive Mandate
Opinion -Nearly 100 California gas stations are being forced out of business by a statewide mandate requiring them to implement expensive new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump. -
Receding Glacier Park Ice Not Due to Global Warming
Opinion -I recently received a letter from reader Jane Rectenwald in Missoula, Montana asking a good question: What do the melting glaciers in Glacier Park indicate about global warming? -
Yucca Mountain Site Ideal for Spent Nuclear Fuel
Opinion -Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste have been accumulating in the United States for nearly 60 years, when nuclear materials were first used to produce electricity and to develop nuclear weapons. -
Calif. Ports Struggle to Make ‘Clean Trucks’ Payments
Opinion -Trucking companies that purchased expensive, low-emissions trucks under inducement from a Clean Trucks Program at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach are in danger of bankruptcy as reports surface the two port authorities are unable to come up -
U.S. Promotion of Emerging Energy Technologies Remains Unfunded
Opinion -In August 2005, the Bush administration signed into law the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct05). At the time the legislation was the most comprehensive rewrite of the nation’s energy policy in more than 70 years. -
Activists’ Attacks on Meat Harm Health, Environment
Opinion -Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a four-part series identifying falsehoods about the consumption and production of beef. -
Phosphorus Bans: Is Science Taking a Backseat?
Opinion -Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a series of articles on the science behind phosphorus bans increasingly being proposed in state legislatures. -
Arizona School Battle Brings Out Parents
Opinion -The battle over vouchers and school choice has intensified in Arizona since state Rep. -
Ambitious Voucher Bill Defeated in Georgia
Opinion -A bill to provide universal school vouchers in Georgia failed to make it through the state Senate after a ferocious lobbying campaign was mounted against the measure. Though SB 90 had passed the Senate Education Committee on a 6-4 vote, state Sen. -
Montana Considers School Choice Bill
Opinion -Montana families may soon have more than just government-mandated public schools to choose from. On February 5 the state Senate Tax Committee heard SB 342, sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Essman (R-Billings). -
EdChoice Scholarship Program Stays in Ohio Budget
Opinion -Supporters of Ohio’s Educational Choice Scholarship Program breathed a tentative sigh of relief when Gov. Ted Strickland (D) announced his proposed education budget in early February. -
Indiana Legislators Consider Tax Credit Measure
Opinion -The Indiana state legislature is considering a bill to establish a tax credit scholarship program for families to send their children to private K-12 schools.S.B. 528—introduced in January by state Sen. -
N.Y. May Cut Aid to Private Schools
Opinion -New York Gov. David Paterson (D) is considering cutting $44 million allocated for religious and independent schools statewide over each of the next two years, further cutting into reimbursements for state-mandated programs. -
Connecticut Launches Tuition Tax Credit Drive
Opinion -To save money and give poor and middle-income students access to better schools, a new group is asking Connecticut to create a tuition tax credit program. -
Hartford Choice Program Hailed and Questioned
Opinion -A multifaceted open-enrollment plan called the All-Choice Program has entered its second year of operation in Hartford, Connecticut, with mixed opinions from experts. -
Mandate for Change Offers Education Blueprint
Opinion -A charter school advocacy group has offered the new administration a set of recommendations for education reform. -
New Book Challenges Spending Adequacy Claims
Opinion -Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America’s Public Schoolsby Eric A Hanushek and Alfred A. LindsethPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009456 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-69113-000-2, $29. -
Education Achievement Has Declined Radically Since World War II
Opinion -Weapons of Mass Instructionby John Taylor GattoGabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2009206 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-86571-631-5, $24. -
Illinois Public School Teachers Out-Earn Private Sector
Opinion -While most of us struggle to make ends meet and put off our retirement plans in today’s contracting economy, Illinois school employees continue their unabated raid on public funds. -
2009 April Budget & Tax News: Stimulus Bill Not Likely to Work
Opinion -The April 2009 issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on the federal economic stimulus bill passed in February. -
2009 April Environment & Climate News: Palin Energy Plan Wins High Praise
Opinion -The April 2009 issue of Environment & Climate News reports on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s renewable energy proposal, which empowers local municipalities and won immediate praise from environmental groups, consumer groups, and industry. -
Obama Breaks Tax Pledge, Signs SCHIP
Opinion -Barely two weeks after assuming the presidency, Barack Obama signed into law a bill expanding a health insurance subsidy and breaking one of the central promises of his candidacy. -
States Launch Government Transparency Web Sites
Opinion -Advocates of transparency in government spending are delighted with the level of sunlight the New Year is bringing to several states’ finances.
