The television-news business has a great phrase: “happy talk.” On some occasions, TV producers ask their newsreaders to engage in some friendly banter — happy talk — to fill the airtime between news segments.
Read moreCalifornia leads the nation in a number of ignominious categories. Its budget deficit of $26 billion is nearly twice as large as that of the next state (Texas).
Read morePresident Barack Obama’s policies toward energy in general, and oil in particular, are inconsistent and incoherent. And that approach is costing US consumers dearly.
Read moreLast month, the Department of Energy launched a competition called “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator.” According to Energy Secretary Steve Chu, the effort will “unleash America’s innovation machine and win the global race for the clean energy jobs of the future.”
Read morePresident Barack Obama, during his speech at Georgetown University on Wednesday, condemned politicians for using what he called “slogans and gimmicks” on energy policy.
Read moreFirst, there was Three Mile Island, then Chernobyl and now, Fukushima. The devastating tsunami and earthquake which caused the nuclear accident in Japan is once again raising serious questions about the safety of nuclear energy, particularly when it is produced by older reactors.
Read morePresident Barack Obama told a crowd in Prague two years ago that “we must harness the power of nuclear energy on behalf of our efforts to combat climate change.”
Read moreIn an extended Q&A, John Hanger, Former Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection, Discusses Natural Gas and Hydraulic Fracturing, While Blasting the New York Times and Gasland
Read moreOf all the times for the U.S. to be discouraging domestic production of oil and natural gas, right now might be the worst.
Read moreWhen the chairman of the world’s largest food company says that using food crops to make biofuels is “absolute madness,” sensible people should take heed.
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