Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
For two decades, Monsanto has been able to take living organisms, insert genes into them, and then patent them as its own intellectual property. And nobody has challenged this – until now.
The government of India has filed suit against Monsanto – for violating India’s Biological Diversity Act (BDA). It’s the first time a company has been sued by a government for acts of biopiracy.
Scientists around the globe are looking on in shock as our political system descends even further into a maelstrom of ignorance.
After years of GOP politicians denying climate change, denying evolution, and denying the basic premises of living in a scientific age, one scientist thinks it’s time to fight back.
We’ve talked quite a bit about subsidies. How Republicans oppose subsidies to help jump-start our clean energy economy on free-market grounds, but don’t seem to care about market forces when it comes to ending massive subsidies for oil, nuclear and coal.
Here’s a pretty thorough debunking of the subsidies question.
Why is Senator David Vitter battling on behalf of formaldehyde? It’s a chemical that only his campaign contributors love…
The GOP is on a jihad to slash “job-killing regulations”. But… do regulations actually kill jobs? Not so much, but it’s a great opportunity for Republicans to go after stuff they don’t like anyway, like pollution controls.
Why is the GOP trying to turn the bankruptcy of solar power company Solyndra into a big huge scandal? Sure, they want to embarrass the Obama administration, but more than that – it’s actually having real-world consequences for other solar projects.
The latest casualty: A project that would have installed solar roofs on military housing.
Congress has started debating a number of bills that would allow oil companies, the timber and mining industries, and other special interests to destroy the lands YOU own – as a citizen of the US – by turning them into profit centers.
We’ve told you how GOP governors in states like Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin have let ideology trump job-creation and rejected high-speed rail plans – and federal funding – for their states. Now, it looks like California may be derailing its own high-speed corridor, through a mix of NIMBYism and inertia.
Rasmussen reports, the conservative pollster, has a new survey out that claims 59 % of voters oppose government loan help for alternative energy companies like Solyndra. But it’s funny how surveys work. There’s a big difference between asking clean questions, and horrifically loaded questions that are carefully weighted to get the response you prefer. Guess which kind Rasmussen asked?
Last week House Speaker John Boehner insisted he was willing to shut down the government unless we kill a loan program that helps Detroit automakers retool factories to make hybrid cars. (Note: that’s a loan program, not a give-away program.)
Senate leader Harry Reid may have found a little bit o’ backbone, though. He’s started the bizarre parliamentary dance required to lob the ball back at the House… WITHOUT the odious job-killing green-car cut. But will it work?
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