Environmental Issues

OBAMA PRIMISED HIGHER ENERGY COSTS. HE WASN’T KIDDING

Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) Home > Obama promised higher energy costs. He wasn’t kidding President Obama held a town hall meeting Wednesday at a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fairless Hills, Pa., to promote his Big Green energy agenda. Not everyone in the audience was receptive to his message.When one man failed to clap […]

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RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL FOUND IN FISH NEAR JAPANESE NUCLEAR PLANT

APRIL 5, 2011, 3:09 P.M. ET By JURO OSAWA and YOREE KOH in Tokyo and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI in Kesennuma, Japan WSJ’s Yumiko Ono reports on fears surrounding the Japanese’s government’s decision to dump more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Heard on the Street Tepco’s Crisis Should Power Utility Deals Earthquake

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YUCCA MOUNTAIN – STORAGE OF NUCLEAR WASTE GETS NEW SCRUTINY

MARCH 25, 2011 By STEPHEN POWER The nuclear crisis in Japan is reviving a battle over what should be done with the spent nuclear fuel that has been piling up around the U.S. for decades. Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in Hanford, Wash. Under a 2002 law, Nevada’s Yucca Mountain is the designated

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NUCLEAR SAFETY AND YUCCA MOUNTAIN

NEWS&OBSERVER Last word in nuclear safety: Yucca BY RICK MARTINEZ – Correspondent March 24, 2011 It’s becoming increasingly clear that the biggest threat of uncontained radiation from Japan’s earthquake-induced nuclear-plant disaster lies in the spent fuel rods stored on site, not the active power plant cores. I don’t know if the prime minister can order

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OBAMA: DRILL, BRAZIL, DRILL!

IBD Editorials Posted 07:08 PM ET Energy Policy: While leaving U.S. oil and jobs in the ground, our itinerant president tells a South American neighbor that we’ll help it develop its offshore resources so we can one day import its oil. WHAT?!? With Japan staggered by a natural disaster and a nuclear crisis, cruise missiles

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WHY OBAMA WENT TO BRAZIL

MARCH 21, 2011 Why Obama Went to Brazil There’s a chance to build a new foreign policy alliance that disdains dictators like Hugo Chávez. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY President Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador this week, while war rages in Libya, has been sharply criticized as proof of dangerous detachment from a

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WHAT GE WAS THINKING IN 2011

MARCH 19, 2011 Into the time machine to see how a major company coped with its black swans By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following memo was unearthed as part of the litigation, now entering its 50th year, over the Great Japan Nuclear Incident of 2011. Addressed to General Electric’s then-CEO Jeff Immelt, the memo

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WHY NORTH DAKOTA IS BOOMING

MARCH 15, 2011 They’re drilling for oil, attracting high tech, and keeping the tax burden moderate. Result: 3.8% unemployment. By JOEL KOTKIN Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources at

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N.C. GOVERNOR PERDUE VETOES GOP BILL CHALLENGING HEALTH CARE LAW

March 07, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive NCGA Preview: Week of March 7 By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — The bill lifting the state’s cap on charter schools at 100 passed the Senate by a 33-17 vote. It faces tougher sledding in the House. John Hood’s Daily Journal Perdue Now Owns ObamaCare Perdue and Cooper

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