by Jane Richey | Jul 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The National Institute of Justice is planning to spend $500,000 in federal funds to see if the booming oil industry has impacted domestic violence, dating violence, rape, and stalking in North Dakota and South Dakota and Montana. “Qualitative and quantitative methods...
by Jane Richey | Jul 24, 2013 | Health Care
The federal government may be one step closer to keeping tabs on consumers’ health care information with a new data hub compiling personal information from a host of government agencies and newly collected health status information. Some experts warn it could get even...
by Jane Richey | Jul 24, 2013 | Agenda 21
A new method for producing electricity from waste carbon dioxide emitted by power stations could be so efficient that it has the potential to create 400 times the amount of power that the Hoover Dam generates in a year, Dutch scientists have claimed. Researchers from...
by Jane Richey | Jul 23, 2013 | Agenda 21
Two state agencies are warning proposed legislation would strip their authority to determine which species are labeled endangered in Pennsylvania. The measure would require the Fish and Boat Commission and the Game Commission, now independent agencies, to instead run...
by Jane Richey | Jul 23, 2013 | Agenda 21
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska consists of 19 million acres — including a 1.5 million acre coastal plain seen as the potential source of at least 7.7 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. But in addition to reservoirs of untapped...
