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Fo Shizzle, My Grizzle

Yellowstone grizzlies no longer threatened, Bush administration argues Hey, Boo-Boo, Yellowstone’s grizzlies may be removed from the endangered species list if the Interior Department has its way. In a proposal […]

Carnival of the Green

I was remiss in not linking to the first one of these, so: Don't miss the second Carnival of the Green.

Letting the market decide

This op-ed by Charles Krauthammer fairly captures the current conventional wisdom on energy policy: demand is rising, supply is tight, and so the answer is to decrease demand (conserve) and increase supply (drill in the Arctic Refuge and off shore).

The really amusing part is that the conceit -- nay, the headline -- is "let the market decide energy policy."

But then there's this:

We have a unique but fleeting opportunity to permanently depress demand by locking in higher gasoline prices. Put a floor at $3. Every penny that the price goes under $3 should be recaptured in a federal gas tax so that Americans pay $3 at the pump no matter how low the world price goes.

Um. Wouldn't a stiff gas tax kind of influence the market's decisions about energy policy?

And there's this:

Rick Durden, green pilot and head of LightHawk, answers questionsRick Durden, green pilot and head o

Rick Durden. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I have recently become the executive director of LightHawk, sometimes referred to as “the wings of conservation.” What does your organization […]

Toxic Femmes

SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish Like many of their land-bound counterparts, male fish off the coast of Southern California are developing female sex characteristics. In the fishes’ case it […]

Mercury Revising

New mercury plan from local regulators would be stronger than Bush’s Prompted by concerns that the Bush administration’s plan to battle mercury pollution wouldn’t do much to, uh, battle mercury […]

The Good News Bears

Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild We’re not like those panda fetishists who flip out about the cute, cuddly black-and-white bears, with their snoogly faces and their roly-poly […]

We Will Rock You

All decked out

An article in last Sunday's Seattle Times gives us some bleak news. The Amazon is being illegally cleared at unprecedented rates. Why? There is a demand for the wood. Where?

Brazil's main markets are the United States, which accounts for one-third of all timber shipments abroad, followed by China, at 14 percent and growing rapidly, and European countries, which collectively account for 40 percent.

Petrol sounds

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart on the recent Senate hearings featuring oil executives: funny. (Watch the video here.)

Among other things, he refers to Exxon CEO Lee Raymond as "Gassington Jowls," which I should have thought of.