Rudy Giuliani doesn’t regret sitting out 2012 race
Is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani sorry that he’s not trying again this year to win the Republican presidential nomination? Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in a file photo from his failed 2008 presidential campaign. (KEVIN KOLCZYNSKI – REUTERS) In a word: No. And to be precise, it’s more accurate to add an exclamation More...
Cheap natural gas jumbles energy markets, stirs fears it could inhibit renewables
U.S. natural gas prices, which hit more than $13 per thousand cubic feet in 2008, have tumbled to about $2.50 per thousand cubic feet. Rapidly rising production of shale gas and a warm winter have created a glut More...
Atlantic sturgeon listed as endangered species
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Agencies urge Interior to reject mining near national park
Local officials have hailed Alton Coal Development Company’s proposal to mine as much as 49 million tons of coal over the next quarter-century, at the site 10 miles from Bryce Canyon, as a critical way to generate More...
American Airlines’ plan for pension bailout draws criticism
American Airlines, whose parent company filed for bankruptcy in November, said this week that it wants to terminate its four pension plans for 130,000 workers and retirees and ask the federal government’s Pension More...
The Green Lantern: Is chewing gum bad for the environment?
And yet, gum-chewing has a long history, going back to the ancient Greeks, who chewed a gumlike product derived from the resin of the mastic tree. (The tree’s name shares a linguistic root with the verb “to More...
Green Lantern: Can hemp help the environment, or is it just marijuana?
The legal problem for hemp is that it’s taxonomically identical to marijuana. Both are classified as Cannabis sativa L, and the only difference between them is the concentration of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol More...
