FEMA is still trying to recover from its almost criminal negligence during the Katrina disaster. Eager to court good news on its California efforts, however, FEMA showed equally bad judgment in staging a news conference in which staffers posed questions like reporters without revealing the deception to the public. Continue reading “FEMA Fakes News Conference Using Staff Members as Faux Reporters”
Category: Environment
The UN Environment Program’s fourth Global Environmental Outlook is out and it is bleak. Continue reading “U.N. Commission Warns Global Warming and Over-Population Now Threat to Human Survival”
President Bush has only recently back off of his long opposition to the theory of global warming, once even rejected his own scientists support of the theory as “junk science.” Now, however, it has been disclosed that the White House cut out testimony to Congress that revealed the scope of the dangers of global warming to citizens. Continue reading “White House Barred Release of CDC Testimony on Global Warming to Congress”
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., has opposed a modest program to save turtles being wiped out along a highway in Michigan. Continue reading “Congressman Opposes Program to Save Protected Turtles and Calls for Using Money to Build More Highways”
Given the recent crack down on reporters in Arizona, the prior column from the Washington Post below on the grand jury secrecy may be of interest. Continue reading “Grand Jury Secrecy and the Rocky Flats Scandal”
The death of a Virginia high school student to a drug-resistant staph highlights how little the Clinton or Bush Administrations have done on this long-known crisis. Continue reading “Virginia Student’s Death Highlights Killer Infection and Inadequate Government Action”
There are a host of diseases and illnesses that are expected to rise with the global temperatures. One of the most deadly is an illness caused by an ameoba called Naegleria fowleri. Continue reading “Increase in Deadly Amoeba Linked to Global Warming”
Before the start of the international conference on global warming, various countries including China made clear that they will continue to put economic development ahead of the environmental, even if global warming threatens a worldwide ecological disaster. Continue reading “Tragedy of the Commons: Developing Nations Reject Global Warming as Number One Priority”
Jason Atkins, creator of ToughSportLive, has gone to court to seek to strike down a 1999 law banning the creation, possession or transmission of materials depicting animal cruelty. Continue reading “Lawsuit Seeks to Clear the Way for Video Cock Fighting”
In a disturbing case out of Florida, an owner tried to get construction workers to bury his horse alive, according to police reports. The bulldozer operator refused. At most the owner could be charged with animal neglect for leaving the horse in the sun without water or food, a second-degree misdemeanor. For the story, click
A recent study has indicated that melting ice from global warming will kill off half of the polar bear population by 2050 and could wipe out the species in the wild. For the story, click here
There has always been an uneasy compromise between environmentalists and native groups over whaling. Various groups with cultural histories of whaling and a need for the food have been allowed to kill a small number of whales each year. Now, authorities have discovered that one tribe shot a harpooned whale with a 50-caliber machine — hardly a traditional whaling technique. Criminal charges are possible. For the story, click here
Exxon Corporation is still fighting damages for fishermen and others harmed by its infamous oil spill from the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Continue reading “Justice Delayed: Exxon Still Fighting Damages for Exxon Valdez Spill”
In Kentucky, a farmer is being sued for nuisance of his propane cannon — used to scare away birds from his corn. This is becoming more common as residential homes move into former farming areas. Continue reading “Sound Nuisance: Propane Cannon Leads to Tort Action”
As the Japanese government fights to keep whaling over international objections, Japanese officials continue to try to win over the minds of the young that killing whales is a noble cultural tradition. In this video, children responded in shock to the process. Click here for video and story.