Any international treaty is going to consist of tradeoffs and choosing priorities. This is what foreign policy is made of. For the Obama administration, when its free trade agenda comes.
When I saw the New York Times had an article on a mud volcano in Indonesia, I immediately opened it. I've been to Indonesia in 1997 and thought it was.
In modern America, perhaps no industry is as demonized as tobacco. That's because they knew that their products killed people and responded by hiding that evidence and asserting their product.
I do love truth in advertising. From 1962
I have a new piece up at Counterpunch on the Santa Barbara oil spills, 1969 and 2015: The environmental legislation the Santa Barbara oil spill produced included the National Environmental.
In 1969, the beaches of Santa Barbara, California were inundated with oil from a nearby spill. This event galvanized environmentalists both locally and around the nation. I use the Santa.
I'm sure that plunging ahead with fracking will have no unintended consequences or deleterious effects on the environment. Going forward with the procedure without proper testing, oversight, or regulation is.
Some potentially positive developments in the cost of batteries to collect solar energy from home-based systems, which right now is holding back solar energy development. There is some real reason.
