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The massive oil spill in the gulf may end up being the worst in our nation’s history, by far. The deadly spill is currently gushing 210,000 gallons of crude daily into the fragile oceans; if the wellhead is lost, then 6 million gallons a day could be spilled. By comparison, the horrific Exxon Valdez spill was a total of 11 million gallons. Yet, inexplicably, President Obama still supports increasing offshore oil drilling.
Sign warning of dangerous pollution from the long-closed Buck and Dober mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The latest chapter in a multi-year fight over a proposed copper-nickel mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the overnight jailing of Cynthia Pryor for alleged trespass on the mining site, which is on state-owned land. Although the project has [...]
A new map just released by the California Geological Survey shows more than fifty new earthquake faults spread all over the state, many in heavily populated areas. This is the first comprehensive new survey of the area in sixteen years. The agency is hopeful that this new information will help guide and inform development and [...]
Opening any enterprise in an unclear legal and business environment is a difficult proposition. Even more so for cannabis-related efforts. In California, let alone in the rest of the country, a patchwork of regulations make for an ever-shifting and sometimes thorny landscape. One county may have no limits on dispensaries while the neighboring one prohibits [...]
“Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.”* How many children growing up in cities know what a night sky full of stars looks like? How many city and suburban residents can see more than a handful of stars and understand the wonder of a true night sky? [...]
