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Celebrate river's revival
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 4.28.2008
When I was a child, my father took me fishing on the Detroit River, where we caught plenty of perch and silver bass, but no whitefish. I might catch one in 2008 because whitefish are reproducing in the Detroit River for the first time since 1916, as the U.S. Geological Survey recently reported.
The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 4.28.2008
The usual chorus of environmentalists and editorial writers has chimed in to attack President Bush's recent speech on climate change. In his address of April 23, he put forth a goal of stopping the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2025.
Earth Day doomsayers need to get their facts right
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 4.24.2008
With all the reminders to recycle, shrink our carbon footprint, and reduce our consumption of goods, just about everyone feels guilty on Earth Day.
Earth Day lessons for California
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 4.24.2008
SACRAMENTO — Earth Day events here were rather different this year. Car dealers showcased their latest hybrids, hippies were little in evidence, and the crowd was more upscale. There was even, yes, valet parking for bicycles. The baleful note of past events was missing and for that there is some justification.
Is ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Good for California?
Submitted by Thomas Tanton on 4.24.2008
The California Air Resources Board is mulling a mix of regulations, fees and market-like mechanisms to impose on California, to comply with the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act. That 2006 law requires California to cut greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels within 12 years, but it gives the board some latitude in determining how to achieve the goal. Two proposals are now being considered.
Earth Day 2008: Clearing the air ...
Submitted on 4.22.2008
It's time to clear the air about how the United States affects the environment -- and how extremist environmentalism could affect the U.S.
Get Out and Enjoy Earth Day
Submitted by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 4.22.2008
Earth Day 2008 brings good news about the environment but also reveals a strange dynamic. Despite a nearly non-stop public dialogue, including an Oscar-winning movie and two Nobel prizes, Americans are actually taking less time to experience the environment. They would be better off if they went outside and enjoyed it for a change.
Good news, as well
Submitted on 4.22.2008
Earth Day was held this week, which is an appropriate time to make an assessment. Generally, the environment in Jacksonville is pleasant.
Happy Birthday Vladimir Lenin, And Oh Yeah - Happy Earth Day Too
Submitted by Alan Caruba on 4.22.2008
As we approach the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union (oops, I meant Earth Day) it's so easy to confuse the two because they occur, quite by coincidence I'm sure, on the same day. Anyway April 22 will bring forth an avalanche of the usual accusations that America is a sinkhole of pollution, et cetera.
Happy Earth Day
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 4.22.2008
More than 30 years ago political scientist Anthony Downs discerned what he called the “issue-attention cycle,” a five-stage process by which the public and especially the news media grow alarmed over an issue, agitate for action, generate piles of scary headlines, and then begin to draw back as we come to recognize that the problem has been exaggerated or misconceived, and the price tag for action comes in.
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