Outcome for halting adverse climate change, protecting the environment, curbing pollution and toxics was very negative- Republicans scored an across-the-board victory in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. That they did well is […]
Government shutdown tells us Americans love their national parks
Survey reveals deep support for our national parks; So does the efforts to place blame for shutdown- When the “non-essential” government programs were ended for a month during the recent […]
The people who shut the national parks try to investigate the Park Service
A case of the guilty investigating the effects of their crime? When the House Republicans shut down the “non-essential” services of the U.S. government by failing to pass neither a […]
Tea Party ruins big agreement to restore the Klamath River and settle long term nasty dispute
Agreement ending 100 years of fighting over the uses of the Klamath River’s waters falls to a group of local malcontents- After many years of fighting over salmon, dams, irrigation […]
Cry, Wolf
Did a Campaign of Fear and Intimidation Lead to the Gray Wolf’s Removal from the Endangered Species List? There have been a number of analyses of the recent congressional wolf […]
‘Republicans for Environmental Protection’ – Endangered Species?
The word “conservation” and conservative are closely related, but there seems no room for conservationists in today’s radicalized Republican Party- So-called “conservative” Republican activists are bent on tearing down protections […]
Jim Beer's speech in Boise. Anti-wolf, tea party, nullificationist
Notes on his speech- I guess by now Beers needs no introduction, but the themes he expresses show the anti-wolf folks are really just part of tea party eruption with […]
Passing Prop. 23 would send California Reeling Backwards
Billionaire tea party funders effort to kill CA emissions law- We posted about this repeal effort earlier, but a good article about the Koch Brothers by a California minister. Passing […]