Archives for the ‘Environment’ Category

Texas Takes Stand Against EPA – Will Virginia Follow?

By Gary Baise • Aug 18th, 2010 • Category: Environment

The Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Attorney General have written to EPA’s Administrator telling her she is breaking the law.



Control Your Dust – or Else

By Gary Baise • Aug 5th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

EPA has not given up on regulating dust from your farm. And a number of agricultural organizations suggest the new standard could be devastating.



Is There a Middle Road in the Mountain Top Removal Debate?

By Frank Kilgore • Jul 9th, 2010 • Category: Energy, Environment, Feature

Re-mining and reclamation in Virginia.



Government Makes Gulf Oil Disaster Even Worse

By Mike Thompson • Jul 9th, 2010 • Category: Energy, Environment, Feature

The ban on offshore drilling only makes things worse.



Taking State Parks off the State’s Books, Part 2

By Leonard Gilroy • Jun 23rd, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

Myths about privatizing state parks.



More Regulations for Livestock Farms?

By Gary Baise • Jun 9th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

EPA is continuing its effort to regulate as many aspects of production agriculture as possible. This latest effort is merely a precursor to more lawsuits against livestock production in the United States.



Science Policy Needs a “Team B” – Part II

By David Schnare • Jun 9th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

In Part I of this commentary, we explained that the key to honest science is independent replication of the analysis and evaluation of important assumptions.



Global Warming: The Truth is Out There

By Gary Baise • May 26th, 2010 • Category: Environment

Agriculture has a lot at stake in the climate change or global warming debate. Troubling questions have been raised recently over the science supporting global warming.



Science Policy Needs a “Team B” – Part I

By David Schnare • May 26th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Top Story

The wonderful “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money” statement attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen may be apocryphal, but it remains a prescient warning to our nation’s leaders.



A Tea Party Environmental Platform

By David Schnare • May 12th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

Middle America seems to have awakened with the Tea Party. So, what is the Tea Party about and what does that really mean with regard to environmentalism?