Articles By Author Bonner R. Cohen
Articles by Bonner R. Cohen
03/08/2010 12:00 AM
Newly sworn-in Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s pledge to make the state the “energy capital of the East Coast” has run into a roadblock ...(read more)
03/06/2010 12:00 AM
U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) have sent letters to eight energy companies questioning their use of hydraulic fracturing for natural ...(read more)
02/20/2010 12:00 AM
The devastating cold fronts and snowstorms that mercilessly pounded residents of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this winter have devastated marine ecosystems ...(read more)
02/19/2010 12:00 AM
Continuing the Obama administration’s crackdown on emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to tighten standards for ground-level ...(read more)
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to deny several Utah urban areas certification under the Clean Air Act, claiming, among other things, the ...(read more)
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
Two new studies report cold temperatures kill more people than heat. Those findings contradict a main component of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ...(read more)
01/21/2010 12:00 AM
The wind power industry has suffered a setback as U.S. District Judge Roger Titus has ruled wind turbines under construction on a mountain ridge in West ...(read more)
11/01/2009 12:00 AM
The North Carolina Senate has voted overwhelmingly to ban commercial wind farms from the state’s picturesque western mountain ranges.With its 42 to ...(read more)
11/01/2009 12:00 AM
Under the watchful eyes of the residents of Washington and Oregon, the Obama administration is preparing to unveil its plan to improve numbers of several ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
Less than three months after EPA’s much-delayed and highly controversial plan to dredge the Hudson River to remove PCBs got underway, the agency’s ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
The U.S. oil and gas industry has contributed nearly half of all dollars invested by the nation’s public and private sectors this decade in low-emissions ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
Dire predictions of human-induced global warming leading to expanding deserts are colliding with emerging evidence that something else is going on: North ...(read more)
09/01/2009 12:00 AM
The increase in global precipitation in the late twentieth century appears to have been largely benign in the northeastern United States, according to a ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
Three Utah counties have teamed up with five petroleum companies to sue Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, alleging he unlawfully cancelled 77 leases to drill ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
Facing a widening budget deficit in the midst of a deepening recession, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed tapping into a rich source ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
The bedbug, an obnoxious pest long thought confined to the sleepless nights of a bygone era, is back.From college dormitories and homeless shelters to hospital ...(read more)
04/01/2009 12:00 AM
The Montana Senate has approved a resolution saying the state’s wetlands and seasonal streams should be controlled by Montana and not the federal ...(read more)
04/01/2009 12:00 AM
Animal biologists conducting their annual midwinter count of bald eagles around lakes Mead and Mohave are reporting growing numbers of the majestic birds ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
After decades of assault from environmental activist groups, Oregon’s timber industry is now being defended by some as environmentally superior to ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
Environmental activists have brought an end to the CFC inhaler, a device asthma sufferers have relied on to provide nearly instant relief from the difficulties ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
The State of Maryland has agreed to spend $1 million in taxpayer money toward reducing school bus emissions—instead of spending it on education—to ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
Fears a thawing of permafrost could accelerate global warming by putting substantial amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have been ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
More than six decades of painstaking conservation efforts that have brought the majestic whooping crane back from the brink of extinction may come undone ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
Once hailed by environmentalists as a champion of green causes, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) now finds himself the scourge of his erstwhile supporters.
Kaine’s ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
In one of the most ambitious energy-related joint ventures in recent memory, the Crow Tribe is joining forces with an Australian company to construct a ...(read more)
