Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
David Stout The Supreme Court handed a major political victory to the Bush administration today, ruling 7 to 2 that Vice President Dick Cheney is not obligated, at least for now, to release secret details of his energy task force.
Each summer as 120-degree heat shimmers silver waves across the Mojave Desert, residents of this inferno crank the thermostat down. Air-conditioner compressors and fan motors often run 24-hours a day and for weeks on end.
Britain risks running short of gas over the next two winters if the weather were particularly harsh or there were an emergency such as a terrorist attack on an import terminal, according to a House of Lords inquiry.
“State Highway 20 is a waste of public money at a time when climate change, local air pollution and oil depletion will all be much worse by the time it is opened.”
Oil prices edged up on Thursday as Norwegian employers said they would lock out striking workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output from the world’s number three crude exporter.
The 100-year reign of the world’s oil-based economy is nearing its zenith, according to Paul Roberts.
China’s railway system is near collapse and the Chinese economy seems to have entered a vicious cycle.
A worst-case scenario of climate change from the possible future release of submerged methane hydrates predicts catastrophic warming in the atmosphere and rising sea level similar to conditions that preceded the last ice age
The abiotic origin of oil, is a theory that has yet to see conclusive evidence. It’s known better for it’s lack of evidence against, than evidence for.
As polio cases surge in Nigeria and the virus spreads to other countries, western and central Africa are on the brink of the largest polio epidemic in recent years, officials of the World Health Organization and Unicef said Tuesday.
U.S. fuel stockpiles are languishing well below average, leaving the world’s largest energy consumer vulnerable to a summer gasoline inventory crunch or tight supplies of heating oil next winter, the Department of Energy said on Wednesday.
Toxic chemical releases into the environment rose 5 percent in 2002, marking only the second such increase reported by the Environmental Protection Agency in nearly two decades, and the first since 1997.
