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When pollsters pit the economy versus the environment , the environment will always lose. But when polls are designed to get a feel for the public's opinion on issues pertaining to energy, environment, science—without necessarily pitting those issues in direct opposition to economic i...
Two years ago, I tweeted that I was waiting for the day that our environmental heroes are honored during the little shout-out portion of the State of the Union. Well, if the list of Mrs. Obama's guests released by the White House before Tuesday's State of the Union are any indicator, ...
The next year Monsanto secretly agreed that "any written effluent level reports [on PCBs] would be held confidential by the Technical Staff and would not be available to the public until or unless Monsanto released it". And that was apparently the final word because nothing changed fo...
Instead of doing the politically advisable thing and letting go of his anti-science lampooning of President Obama's support for algae biofuels, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich renewed his smug critique of algae this week after winning the primary in his home state of Geo...
At a time when several high profile conservative politicians in the U.S. including presidential hopefuls Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich are calling for the elimination of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Japanese Government is looking to do the complete opposite and ...
The earth moved in Washington, D.C., yesterday, and it wasn't another freak East Coast earthquake. The Obama administration announced it would reevaluate the environmental review of the dirty Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. That means that, despite being backed by all the might and mo...
Timothy Hurst is the editor at Ecopolitology and Earth & Industry as well as the executive editor of the LiveOAK Media Network . He writes mostly about energy and environmental politics, clean tech, infrastructure and green business. When not reading, writing, or talking about environ...
In the context of rising gas prices, and on the heels of a policy speech in which President Obama preemptively critiqued the Republican Party election-year energy strategy, Mr. Obama again piled on the now familiar Republican energy plan in his weekly address. "I'll save you the suspe...
