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Windfall taxes and Mr. Obama

…else might we call a “windfall” once we get started? What if Big Coal starts making billions in extra profits, or farmers who grow corn, or who own assets whose…

Oil and water do not mix to our benefit

…problem with drilling in the Galisteo Basin is soil and water pollution. Tecton, the Texas company drilling in the basin, claims to have new, cleaner technologies. But oil and gas…

What the Oil money is doing

…gas, coal, nuclear energy or alternative fuels. Japan accounts for 48 percent of the globe’s solar-power generation — compared with 15 percent in the United States. The adoption rate for…

Human capital is where it’s at!

…study defines natural capital as the sum of cropland, pastureland, forested areas, protected areas, and nonrenewable resources (including oil, natural gas, coal, and minerals). Produced capital is what most of…

Do you know what SPP is?

…continental in scope. Posse Comitatus FISA Procurement procedures DOD Personnel procedures DOD, State Trade agreements on water resources Trade agreements on oil, coal and methane development Homeland security survellance procedures…

To Worry, or Not to Worry?

…will be hard to move grains and soybeans south, and coal and coffee north, along the Mississippi. Risk Management Solutions, a consultancy, estimates that the economic loss from Hurricane Katrina,…

…crude oil, it hit 7%; for aluminum it was 25%; for steel products, it was 27%; for iron ore, it was 30%; for coal, it was 31%; and for global…

…new nuclear reactor in Idaho, $800 million in federal loan guarantees for a coal gasification plant in Minnesota and tens of millions of dollars in subsidies for timber companies to…

…in tax breaks to promote greater use of coal in power plants, to renew interest in nuclear power, to encourage oil companies to drill in deep waters in the Gulf…