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Life outside the big cities has its charms. The pace is slower, parking is rarely an issue, almost everyone can have a dog, the air is cleaner, the water is….. Just months after a new standard took effect to limit levels of arsenic in drinking water, Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) will introduce a measure [...] Who would ever have thought major storms will hit the US coastline in 2006 (I mean, other than these guys, these guys, these guys, these guys, and these guys)? It’s a miracle, I tell you! Who, other than every reliable climatologist on the face of the earth Pat, via The Man Upstairs, has this kind [...] Not one to let minor concerns like the planet or all the people who aren’t yet done using it get in the way, George Bush celebrated Earth Day in his own inimitable style. He danced with the ones that brought him. Rather than use the Oval Office bully pulpit to push alternative energy production and [...] When Bush says, “Scientists are unsure about global warming,” what he really means is “Scientists are unsure if they’ll ever again be allowed to speak freely about global warming.” Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. [...] And I may be the king of Norway. And space aliens may turn up at your doorstep with bags of cash because you won the interstellar lottery. During a speech today, President Bush said “First of all, the globe is warming. The fundamental debate – is it manmade or natural?” Actually, that’s no longer a debate, [...] We’re reaching (have reached?) critical mass on global warming. The very possibly irreversible screwup of all screwups. No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades [...] The other 68% think the US should do more about global warming. Almost half (49%) say the issue of global warming is ‘extremely’ or ‘very important’ to them personally, up from 31% in 1998. When asked about the causes of rise in the world’s temperatures, about three-in-ten (31%) feel it is caused by the things people [...] This one speaks for itself. Here are some words the N.C. Department of Labor thinks the public shouldn’t see: tomatoes, landlord, Mexicans, workers.The department recently released to News & Observer staff writer Kristin Collins its files on Ag-Mart, the Florida-based tomato grower that last year incurred the N.C. Department of Agriculture’s largest-ever fine for breaking pesticide [...] |
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