Today from Margaret Swedish: Ten states are suing the federal government in an effort to force tougher mileage standards for SUVs and trucks. I know I was not alone in being rather underwhelmed when President Bush announced new standards last year — 27.5 mpg for new cars and 21.6 mpg for 2006 trucks and SUVs. [...]
Today from Margaret Swedish: Apparently, the pristine natural wonder, Siberia's Lake Baikal, will be spared the threat of an oil pipeline. In a previous post, I reported that the Russian government had approved a plan to build an oil pipeline route that would have brought it close to the lake's northern shore. Environmentalists protested that [...]
Today from Margaret Swedish: Today's Washington Post contains a story based on some new research that offers the hope that, bad as things are about to get because of global warming, the scenario may not be so dire that we are out of time to save ourselves. The study cited in the article is being [...]
Today from Margaret Swedish: "I wouldn't be shocked to find out that by 2100 most things were destroyed." What? I pulled this quote from the remarkably frightening new book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert. The source is climatologist David Rind, who has been working at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) [...]