Monthly Archives: June 2008
Pentagon Pollution: EPA Loss of Credibility Allows Polluters to Run Amok
It’s no surprise the Pentagon is refusing to follow the EPA’s order to clean up three toxic waste dumps. The Bush Reich has been telling the EPA to ignore facts since Day One and let polluters do what they want. … Continue reading
Breaking Irony: Floods Worsen Disastrous Bush Renewable Energy Policy
The Bush Regime is famous for ignoring facts, creating fake ones and using those to justify their decisions. There was lots of evidence showing that ethanol is not a good answer to America’s renewable energy troubles: high gas prices, dwindling supplies, air pollution … Continue reading
Anheuser-Busch Sale: America’s Last Call for Bad, Corporate Beer
Anguish ripples through NASCAR’s burgeoning bleachers as fans ponder the possibility of a Brazilian-Belgian megacorporation buying out iconic Budweiser and a bunch of others under the Anheuser-Busch banner. Even barley growers are nervous that the sale will mean an end of a free … Continue reading
Bush Solar Freeze: You Can Slow It, But You Can’t Stop It, George
The review of new solar projects for federal facilities is just another pathetic attempt by the Bush Reich to stave off the inevitable and give the dying fossil fuel industry a chance to pollute and price-gouge yet another day. But like … Continue reading
Hawai’i Requires Solar Water Heaters; Start of Trend?
Here in Maui, where I’ve been the past few days, the sun shines virtually all the time except for a few days when a storm blows through. The solar capabilities here are seemingly endless. But most hotels, stores, and buildings don’t … Continue reading
Exxon Valdez Damages Cut: Supreme Court Denies Justice to Victims, Nature
Anyone who reads environmental news knows that the affects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill now almost twenty years ago have caused seemingly irreparable damage to Prince William Sound, its flora, fauna and residents. The “cleanup,” though declared complete in … Continue reading
Chris Cannon to Republicans: Don’t Laugh- You’re Next
Utah congressman Chris Cannon’s interviews after losing to that better-looking, younger Republican whose name is inconsequential remind me of the famous Foster Brooks comedy routine where a drunk couple is arguing, the husband melodramatically holds a gun to his head, his … Continue reading
Burb-acolypse Now: Death of Suburbs News A Tad Premature- But Insightful
More articles like this one in the NYT are proclaiming the end of the extravagant and greatly nonsensical exurban lifestyle: driving incredible hours and burning exhorbitant amounts of fuel to live in a house surrounded by corn and deer. While … Continue reading
Chaffetz Beats Cannon: But Will He Be Any Different- or Better?
So Chris Cannon finally got what he deserved and worked so hard for: losing his job in Congress. It’s another lesson of how arrogance, stupidity, selfishness and greed finally catches up with people like him. The problem is Congress and … Continue reading
Consumer Confidence Descent Indicates Death of “Total Economy”
Wendell Berry, the great environmental economist, wrote in a famous essay about how consumerism, capitalism, environmental destruction and globalism have converged to create a perfect storm of human crisis he calls “total economy”: everything we do is done for money, … Continue reading
