Articles By Author James Hoare
Articles by James Hoare
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
On September 20, Environmental Defense--an environmental activist group whose Web site encourages Americans to give up their gasoline-powered automobiles ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
Pointing out that solar and wind power are heavily subsidized and expensive, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R) is stumping across the state for nuclear power.
"Alternative ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
The Montana Environmental Quality Council, a bipartisan committee consisting of the governor, state legislators, and members of the general public, convened ...(read more)
10/01/2007 12:00 AM
U.S. House and Senate negotiators spent the August recess preparing to hammer out differences in their respective energy bills while President George W. ...(read more)
09/01/2007 12:00 AM
Frustrated by obstructionism in the California Assembly, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) is taking the issue of nuclear power directly to the people. ...(read more)
09/01/2007 12:00 AM
A new study reported in the July 8 issue of Science magazine shows crops genetically modified to resist insects and other pests are having a beneficial ...(read more)
09/01/2007 12:00 AM
In a historic move, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the expert review comments and responses to its latest assessment ...(read more)
07/01/2007 12:00 AM
Two new reports released in April, one by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and another by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), conclude ...(read more)
06/01/2007 12:00 AM
Bedbug infestations have nearly doubled nationwide since the year 2000, according to pesticide companies, and a ban on DDT and other effective pesticides ...(read more)
06/01/2007 12:00 AM
An agreement by the governors of eight Midwestern states to champion an interstate compact that would treat the Great Lakes as a shared resource unavailable ...(read more)
05/01/2007 12:00 AM
Minnesota state legislators set aside March 8 to hear firsthand the latest scientific developments regarding global warming. State Sens. Mike Jungbauer ...(read more)
04/01/2007 12:00 AM
The United States is making more significant progress than Europe in cutting both greenhouse gas intensity and gross emissions, Kurt Volker, a European ...(read more)
04/01/2007 12:00 AM
The citizens of Middlefield, Ohio are being hammered by a staggering cost of $7,400 per household after water testing showed the community is very slightly ...(read more)
02/01/2007 12:00 AM
On the final day of its 2006 session, Congress approved legislation opening 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas recovery.
The ...(read more)
02/01/2007 12:00 AM
Nuclear power offers a safe and economical way to meet anticipated growth in American energy demand, according to an October 2006 report by the Progressive ...(read more)
02/01/2007 12:00 AM
Only 22 of the 50 states are considering mercury reduction plans more stringent than the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) enacted by the U.S. Environmental ...(read more)
12/01/2006 12:00 AM
The feel-good political announcement of the 2006 election season--that California would be cutting carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020--is ...(read more)
12/01/2006 12:00 AM
The European Union (EU) had no scientific basis for imposing a moratorium on genetically modified crops, and therefore the ban is illegal, the World Trade ...(read more)
11/01/2006 12:00 AM
After the release of a 23-page report criticizing plans for a proposed industrial wind farm off the shore of Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, state and local ...(read more)
08/01/2006 12:00 AM
The federal government should abolish its tariff on imported ethanol to make possible an affordable alternative to foreign oil, urged Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ...(read more)
08/01/2006 12:00 AM
Eliminating the tariff on ethanol would not only benefit consumers seeking cost-competitive ethanol to fuel their automobiles, it also would eliminate an ...(read more)
07/01/2006 12:00 AM
On May 19, attorneys finished filing briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit regarding a Nebraska law banning corporate farming.
The ...(read more)
07/01/2006 12:00 AM
With Canadian carbon dioxide emissions currently 35 percent higher than Kyoto Protocol targets and rising every year, Canadian officials on May 2 slashed ...(read more)
06/01/2006 12:00 AM
An Oregon county judge on March 23 ruled Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D) could lawfully exercise line-item veto power on part of a spending bill prohibiting his ...(read more)
06/01/2006 12:00 AM
The Colorado Senate on April 27 approved a bill requiring 75 percent of all gasoline sold in the state between November and April to contain at least 10 ...(read more)
