Since writing at LGM, I’ve focused pretty heavily on labor issues over my other field of expertise—environmental issues. There’s a good reason for that and there’s a less good reason. The good reason is that there’s a bigger niche to fill in covering the labor beat. The less good reason is that I felt the […]
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I have an article at Global Comment on fracking, expanding on some of the themes I’ve discussed here over the past few weeks. Regarding Andrew Cuomo’s appointment of leading environmentali
Again, I just have a really hard time understanding why we don’t trust the energy industry to look out for our best interests? In 2007, Berry Energy Inc. of Clarksburg began drilling a conventio
NPR had a fantastic story on Friday about the relationship between fracking and the cluster of earthquakes earlier this year in Arkansas. Many local residents blamed the gas companies for the earthquakes, saying that the process of blasting millions of gallons of water into the Earth is destablizing the fault line. When the companies temporarily […]
I have long had tremendous difficulty understanding the opposition of fossil fuel companies to new fuel technologies. For instance: The oil and gas industry gave astrophysicist Willie Soon more than $
Miners experienced awful conditions in the coal regions of West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal companies ruled the region like a fiefdom. Impoverished workers had few connections with the ou
Half shorter/Half Verbatim Tim Pawlenty: “I’m sorry that I once had a halfway rational position on climate change. I will try to avoid ever being rational again.”
Good to see that a state judge has quashed the efforts of all-purpose winger Ken Cuccinelli to sue the climate scientist Michael Mann for the crime of practicing science. Unfortunately, while Mann can
Unconscionable. This makes me want to take a second look at Polly Higgins’ idea of prosecuting catastrophic corporate negligence at the International Criminal Court.
Probably not. But only because the film does not have a celebrity figurehead equivalent to Al Gore. It does, on the other hand, have all the other ingredients: a solvable global problem (overfishing), frighteningly described through statistics and anecdotes (the oceans will be empty by 2048 if something isn’t done!), a clear and compelling description […]
And by this I assume the report means all wars, not just inter-state wars, considering that the number for the latter is getting so small in historical terms that nearly everything is riskier. Accordi
Via Plumer, Stephen Dubner’s attempt to preempt the many critics of their global warming arguments contains two classic approaches: We have a chapter in SuperFreakonomics about global warming an