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I wanted to call attention to an important study released last month by the Manomet Center for Conservat

After a many-year hiatus, I'm happy to welcome back the Green Scissors report.  Green Scissors 2010 documents environmentally

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill clearly demonstrated that really bad accidents -- the ones that the industry (and too often the government as well) say never happen -- do actually happen sometimes.

The July 8, 2010 edition of Nucleonics Week (not available on the web) included a fairly remarkable article by Ann MacLachlan on Danny Roderick, senior vice president of new projects for G

BP acknowledges that it lobbied for early release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in 2007, in order to boost the chan

Following the general approach used for Kentucky, researchers from Downstream Strategies and the West Virginia Center

Thanks to Ron Steenblik for making me aware of a top 10 enemies list, recently developed by Tom Waterman at The Ethanol Monitor.  Alas, neither Ron nor I made it.  We'll just hav

Fresh off of a financial crisis that risked throwing the US into a depression, my hope was that lessons would be learned.  Nothing dramatic, perhaps, but at least the basics on incentive struc

Ben Sills of BusinessWeek reports today that the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates global fossil fuel subsidies in 2008 at http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-07/global-foss

Fortune Magazine's Roger Parloff, with assistence from insurance specialist Christopher Kende, provides a good rundown on liability for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf.  One import