This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year.
Will Gore be in court over his movie, "Inconvenient Truths?" For those who find the fuss over global warming to be inconvenient, the thought is delightful.
The Environmental Protection Agency drew plenty of harsh criticism and lawsuits during the Bush Administration. Well, policies and names are largely changed.
Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S.
There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions.
You can't negotiate with the laws of physics.
And this examination takes us back to the Norsemen and their settlements in Newfoundland and Greenland. And that pesky issue of the Medaeval Warming.
Photo courtesy Luke Cole and Center on Race, Poverty & Environment.The Native Alaskans who live in little Kivalina are suing two dozen corporations for damages.
In Greece scientists are eagerly mapping the oldest known submerged town on earth. In the eastern Med there are numerous submerged settlements thanks to the settling, and water level changes brought on by earthquakes and seismic shifts.
The new General Motors exiting bankruptcy today is:1) Leaner and getting ever more so. Another 6,000 jobs to go.