"Lucy Cooke and the War on Cute Wildlife"
"Forget fluffy pandas and doe-eyed forest creatures. This TV presenter is all about the ugly, the freakish, the unloved."
Source: Guardian, 08/15/2012
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"Oil Plunges on Strong Dollar, Profit Taking"
Despite Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, some global oil prices fell. It turns out Iran's influence on the international oil market may be weak, and its threats more an effort to head off international sanctions that will harm its own weakened petroleum economy. Shipping lanes are just one of many major strategic factors affecting the global oil market. Iran has, however, offered spurious ammunition to U.S. politicians crowing for US acts of war against it. Right now, the news media are taking Iran's threats more seriously than the oil market is.
Source: AFP, 12/29/2011
"In Rush to Assist Solyndra, U.S. Missed Warning Signs"
"President Obama’s visit to the Solyndra solar panel factory in California last year was choreographed down to the last detail — the 20-by-30-foot American flags, the corporate banners hung just so, the special lighting, even coffee and doughnuts for the Secret Service detail."
Source: NY Times, 09/23/2011
"Donald Trump Says He’s an Environmentalist; Others Beg To Differ"
"Call them Trump’s stumps. Last spring and summer, workers at Trump National Golf Club in Loudoun County (VA) chopped down more than 400 trees along the Potomac River so their golfers could have a better view of the water."
Source: Wash Post, 05/16/2011
Regional, State Interests May Dominate Future Climate & Energy Policy
"The failure of climate legislation in the Senate last week is a blunt reminder of a basic truth, experts say: The nation's energy policies are historically driven by state and regional interests that will trump national agendas in all but the most compelling circumstances.
Source: ClimateWire, 07/28/2010
"Iran’s Ace (or Deuce): Its Oil Reserves"
"Diplomacy and energy are never far apart in the Persian Gulf. So, as American officials seek new international sanctions against Iran this week, it’s probably wise for them to remember how much the world’s global energy map has changed over the past decade."
Source: NYTimes, 03/09/2010
"Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones"
"Istanbul is one of a host of quake-threatened cities in the developing world where populations have swelled far faster than the capacity to house them safely, setting them up for disaster of a scope that could, in some cases, surpass the devastation in Haiti from last month’s earthquake."
Source: NYTimes, 02/25/2010
"Ketchikan Mill Is Awarded Orion North Timber"
"The U.S. Forest Service agreed Monday to sell timber to a Ketchikan mill in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest after the Obama administration's approved the sale."
Source: Juneau Empire, 07/17/2009
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