by Lil Tuttle | Apr 22, 2016 | Energy & Environment
by Lil Tuttle It was the rage in 1970. A million people crowded into New York's Central Park to celebrate and demonstrate support for a radical new environmental protection agenda. Mainstream Media covered all the dire warnings, among them: Between 1980 and 1989,...
by Lil Tuttle | Feb 24, 2016 | Economy & Jobs, Energy & Environment
After a 40-year prohibition, the first tanker of exported American oil sailed from Texas bound for France. A second tanker sailed for the Netherlands shortly after. BloombergBusiness reports: Inside the Panamax oil tanker was a cargo that some on Capitol Hill had...
by Lil Tuttle | Feb 11, 2016 | Energy & Environment
In an unexpected move, the Supreme Court this week issued a stay on implementing controversial new EPA regulations on U.S. power plants until a lawsuit filed by 27 states against the EPA rules can be fully adjudicated in the courts. How you react to the decision...
by Lil Tuttle | Nov 12, 2015 | Economy & Jobs, Energy & Environment
Liberal-progressive New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has "commenced an investigation of Exxon Mobile … to find out what the oil giant knew about the possible risks of carbon-induced climate change and when," reports Christopher Helman...
by Lil Tuttle | Nov 11, 2015 | Energy & Environment
Accuracy matters. Bake a cake using self-rising flour when the recipe calls for non-self-rising flour, and much of the cake will end up on the oven floor. Strike a golf ball 1 degree left of center, and a ball flying 250 yards will end up 30 yards to the left its...
by Lil Tuttle | Oct 5, 2015 | Energy & Environment
"Recycling has been relentlessly promoted as a goal in and of itself: an unalloyed public good and private virtue that is indoctrinated in students from kindergarten through college," writes John Tierney, writer of the Findings column for the New York Times...