Environmental Politics from Across the Spectrum
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Steve Savage in Food 17 days ago
As a grape grower and as a scientist who has spent years studying grape diseases, I was saddened to read that an experimental planting of biotech grapes was ripped out of the ground yesterday by anti-GMO activists. It was a government-funded site in the quaint town of Colmar, in far Eastern France (I’ve been to… Read More…
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Last week the NRDC (National Resource Defense Council) and PAN (Pesticide Action Network) sued the EPA demanding that it ban a particular insecticide called Chlorpyrifos. I have written to some of my NRDC contacts to ask: “why chlorpyrifos?” Is Chlorpyrifos As Scary As They Say? Although you would never know it from reading the uncritical… Read More…
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Joshua S Hill in Climate Change 39 days ago
CO2 emission estimates based on coal and fossil fuel production are pessimistic at best, says new research out of the University of Texas at Austin. A new study by Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin, has shown that CO2 emission estimates used for government… Read More…
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Jeremy Bloom in Climate Change 43 days ago
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy, has a new book out: eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet. The founder of climate activist group 350.org, McKibben is one of the leading voices in the fight to change the way people do business in order to turn around the… Read More…
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New research out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sheds light on the hidden impact of foreign oil on America’s environment. Most statistics concerning the emission of greenhouse gas from the use of oil refers to emissions taking place within the United States. But what is not included are the emissions from the US military operations… Read More…
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(From FailDrill.com) A group of coast scientists – experts who teach at universities from Maine to Hawaii – have drafted a letter to Incident Commander Thad Allen, calling on him to cancel the sand berms and other “massive re-engineering” projects. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal had championed the sand berms as a way of keeping oil… Read More…
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For the first time in over 50 years Arctic waters will be the subject of a mapping expedition. What I want to know is, why? Arctic ice has been receding at a rapid and alarming rate over the past decade. We’ve seen the Northwest Passage open for the first time in recorded and memorable history,… Read More…
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A new exploratory study out of George Mason University has found that people will care more about climate change if it is framed as a public health problem. The authors of the study interviewed 70 Americans and had the respondents read a public health framed essay on climate change. Their results found that, on the… Read More…
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(From DrillFail.com) Late Sunday, Incident Commander Thad Allen notified BP that seepage had been detected in the ocean floor near the well. It could be a leak from the sub-surface portion of the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo well, which would mean the cap – currently in a testing phase – would not be able to keep holding pressure…. Read More…
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BP concluded 48 hours of testing on the new cap over their busted well, and the results are good. The oil flow has stopped, pressure is stable, and there’s no evidence – so far – that the cap has blown a new leak in the underground well. “As we continue to see success in the… Read More…
