by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
The Keystone XL oil sands pipeline “will not have any impact” on greenhouse gas emissions, a report released by prominent energy industry consulting group IHS CERA said Thursday. The report said that’s because Canada’s oil sands, which are more carbon-rich than...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
A new study makes the case for tracking fish from ocean to plate in order to protect Americans from overspending hundreds of dollars each year on mislabeled fish. Better tracking of fish would decrease the rates of “seafood fraud,” according to a report from the ocean...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2013 | Agenda 21, Fiscal Responsibility
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is giving nearly $78,000 of taxpayer funds to the Trustees of Boston University to study whether “climate change” was a primary cause for the decline of the Mayan civilization in Guatemala between 1000 BC and 900 AD....
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2013 | Agenda 21
Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year after they fly into gigantic wind turbine blades. It’s unclear how many of them are eagles, but wildlife groups say that birds of prey on the lookout for food often ignore the blades. Existing permits allow green...
by Jane Richey | Aug 7, 2013 | Agenda 21
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is on a collision course with another federal agency by proposing to list more than 100 square miles in Utah and Colorado as critical habitat for a pair of desert wildflowers, threatening oil production in an energy-rich area. The...
by Jane Richey | Aug 6, 2013 | Agenda 21
The new safety grants “will allow communities to take actions to make their city safer and better places to walk,” said David Strickland, director of the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA), who spoke at a news conference on...
