GM Grapes Raise Hopes for Midwest Wine Industry
One of the most effective, widely used herbicides in the United States-known as 2, 4-D-has a serious drawback: It devastates grapes. That makes it very difficult to raise grapes in the Midwest, because 2, 4-D is widely used on popular staple food crops including corn and wheat, and it can harm grapes up to two miles away from its point of application.
Posted: 12/30/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Biotechnology
DEMING: Global warming freeze?
President-elect Barack Obama recently declared his intention to mitigate global warming by enacting a cap-and-trade policy that would reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by the year 2050.
Posted: 12/10/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Global Warming
Californians, Floridians Support Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling, Polls Say
Recent polls show the citizens of California and Florida, where opening the Outer Continental Shelf to offshore oil and natural gas exploration has historically been controversial, have changed their minds and now support natural resource recovery.
Posted: 11/03/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear Power Is Clear Choice For Reliable, Clean Electricity To Power Continued Economic Progress
Concern over how America will meet its future energy needs is causing the power industry, politicians and even some environmentalists ask whether new nuclear power plants should be part of the nation’s energy mix. Increasingly, they are answering in the affirmative.
Posted: 10/28/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Government Fiddles While America's Forests Burn
Images of people being forced to flee their homes before walls of flame near Los Angeles and San Diego have once again thrust the risk of wildfires into the public view. Truth is, the fire season never went away.
Posted: 10/27/2008 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Land Issues