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Koch Brothers Donate $1 Million To Overturn California Law

We wrote a few days ago about how the Koch brothers are the astroturfers behind the Tea Party. Associated Press is reporting today that the Koch brothers have donated $1 million to the campaign for Proposition 23, an effort to have California’s greenhouse gas emissions law (AB32) revoked. [...]

It’s Started – How a Huge Corporation Is Buying Our Government

In a recent series we wrote about the legal ways that individuals, organizations and corporations can influence our lawmakers, particularly those in Washington, DC. We’ve also commented on a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to be legally treated as individuals when it comes to spending money on political campaigning. It even opens the doors for foreign companies to become more deeply involved in our internal affairs. We thought that the first signs would be increased spending on electioneering during the midterms, but there’s now much more ominous proof of the dangers that critics of the Supreme Court ruling foresaw. [...]

Cloned Cow Controversy Continues

After the revelation that milk from a cloned cow had entered the food chain in the United Kingdom, it now appears likely that meat has too. [...]

Cloning Controversy – Got Milk, Milk, Milk?

The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) said today that it is going to investigate a claim that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow is being sold for public consumption. The issue was raised in an article in last Friday’s International Herald Tribune newspaper. In it, a British dairy farmer was quoted anonymously [...]

BP Oil Leak Temporarily Stemmed

The watered down financial reform bill passed yesterday, but that event was eclipsed by BP’s announcement that they have temporarily capped the oil well that has been out of control for almost three months. Today we take a brief look at possible outcomes. [...]

Why Is The Taxpayer Subsidizing The Oil & Gas Companies?

The oil and gas industry has been very successful at providing campaign contributions and lobbying Congress over the years to minimize government regulation of their cash cow. They’re not only good at extracting favors, they also extract billions of Dollars in government subsidies every year. [...]

Businesses Prevail - The GOP Reveals Its Priorities

One of the strange things about a catastrophe is that politicians love to use such events to grandstand their wares. The BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is that it has sharply delineated the White House’s and the Republican opposition’s approach to who should be held accountable. [...]

Best Practices?

As the ongoing saga in the Gulf of Mexico evolves and congress interrogates BP executives, it’s worth having a look at the regulatory and safety regimes imposed on the offshore oil drilling industry here and overseas. The whole world is watching this incident and it’s already very obvious that The United States government has been lax in it’s oversight of the industry. [...]

BP Oil Disaster Spill Estimator

BP has consistently understated the amount of oil being spilled into the Gulf of Mexico every day since the blowout and explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 10, 2010. It may be that they don’t have an accurate figure, or they may simply be trying to stave off fines that may be related to the size of the spill. We’ve produced an estimator to try to track what may be happening. [...]

Beyond Pointing – Part 2 – Prevention Is Better Than Cure

The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is still evolving. BP has managed to reduce the flow rate into the open ocean but a lot more remains to be done. In this article we look at what could have been done to avoid this disaster and to help avoid similar ones in the future. [...]

Beyond Pointing - Part 1 - Who's Who In The Gulf Disaster?

The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico may run for a few more months, but the cleanup will take years and the legal fights could take decades, despite British Petroleum’s (BP’s) assurances that they will repair the damage and pay all costs. In this, the first of two articles on the situation, we’ll look at the major players, both before and after the accident occurred. [...]

Hiding Our CO2 Problem

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Shell are proposing to conduct a carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration experiment in the Montevista Hills in the Sacramento Delta region of Northern California, not far from where we live. Similar experiments have started, or are planned, across the nation. Is this a fix for the greenhouse gas problem? Or will it cause problems of its own? [...]

President Obama signed the second part (reconciliation) of the health care reform bill on March 30, 2010. That's great, but the provisions that will cover the uninsured haven't clicked in yet.

Our elected officials started work on the proposed health insurance reform bill on July 30, 2009. Harvard researchers estimate that 122 Americans die every day as a result of not having health insurance.

So, the estimated number of uninsured Americans who have died while the politicians in the Senate and Congress played politics and delayed new benefits for the sake of the health care insurers is

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Koch Brothers Donate $1 Million To Overturn California Law

It’s Started – How a Huge Corporation Is Buying Our Government

Cloned Cow Controversy Continues

Cloning Controversy – Got Milk, Milk, Milk?

BP Oil Leak Temporarily Stemmed

Why Is The Taxpayer Subsidizing The Oil & Gas Companies?

Businesses Prevail - The GOP Reveals Its Priorities

Best Practices?

BP Oil Disaster Spill Estimator

Beyond Pointing – Part 2 – Prevention Is Better Than Cure

Beyond Pointing - Part 1 - Who's Who In The Gulf Disaster?

Hiding Our CO2 Problem

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