A very good piece on the trickiness of Superfund attempts to clean up rivers. Is it better to clean up the toxic sludge at the bottom of rivers flowing through industrial sites, even though it could stir up those toxins in the short term? Or...
Author: Erik Loomis
For conservatives, Paul Ryan's one possible weakness is that he's not vociferously anti-union enough. After all, he supports the Davis-Bacon Act. He also voted for the auto bailout. But don't.
Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake moves the mainstreaming of overturning the 17th Amendment another step forward. Yes, an increasing number of right-wingers want to repeal the constitutional amendment allowing for the.
I suppose that maybe this was a misspoken statement, but it certainly seems to fit with the rest of the Republican response to Obama to blame the national drought on the president. Not the response, the drought itself. And who doubts that a certain segment...
This story about the siphoning of water from the Sacramento River to the big corporate farms and cities of southern California says a lot about the future of water resources.
Who else is just ecstatic at the possibility of Catfood Commission Erskine Bowles as Secretary of the Treasury? I know I can't wait for the Obama Administration to start negotiations.
It's really hard to see how Adam Davidson's tenure at NPR can continue after this powerful report linking his "journalism" to his real job as a paid shill for the banking industry.
For this week's Forestry Friday post I want to follow up on last week's discussion of drug cartels destroying the forests of Mexico by bringing this story into the forests.
Color me less than shocked that people are gaming the carbon credit system, creating unintended consequences that actually hurts the environment.
I've read a lot of writing by members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Propaganda, songs, pamphlets, newspapers, posters, etc. The I.W.W. may have been completely ineffective at actual unionism, but it sure could articulate the disgust many working-class people had toward capitalism in...
I watched Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank the other night. It was a pretty excellent film, even if the plot twist was predictable. Essentially, a very confused, messed-up, and angry 15.
Of course any post on the top 10 films in history is basically trolling for comments. But they were interesting comments. And here's a few additional thoughts based upon them:.