Category Archives: Environment

Is Texas Billionaire Harold Simmons going to turn the Ogallala Aquifer into a Nuclear Dump?

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields and he can’t fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billionaire hired lobbyists to urge the Obama administration … Continue reading →

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Chris Christi pulls New Jersey out of RGGI Cap-and-Trade Scheme

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) announced that his state is leaving the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade scheme involving 10 northeastern states. During a press conference, Christie called the RGGI a “failure,” and claimed it is “not effective in … Continue reading →

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Cooler Heads and Climate Change

Posted on November 16, 2010 by

In his Outlook essay “Chill Out,” Bjorn Lomborg rightly notes that skepticism about climate change is no longer focused on whether it the earth is getting warmer (it is) or whether humans are contributing to it (we are). The current … Continue reading →

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