Michigan gets off easy with its $600 million settlement of allegations that lead-tainted water in Flint has caused permanent brain damage for its victims.
Read more...The European Commission’s ambitous Green Deal plans are already stumbling over bureaucratic infighting and ag industry opposition.
Read more...How consolidation in dairy processing has led to overproduction of milk and dumping.
Read more...Some good work on monopoly is marred by the bizarre inclusion of Uber. Its predatory pricing is the result of deep pockets and ideology, not potential market power.
Read more...How the Bakken oil boom, particularly hasty development and transport by rail, was destined to create an environmental hangover…..and no one bothered to prevent it.
Read more...Trump EPA to weaken Obama methane rule, acceding to fossial fuel pressure, despite the Congressional Review Act, which may kick in aft Nov.
Read more...Financial regulators still don’t like to tame bubbles even after seeing how costly it is when they go boom. Shame, that.
Read more...Not only is the airline industry in desperate shape, but its executives have made its bad situation worse, increasing resolution costs for all bagholders.
Read more...A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.
Read more...Experts have the willies about the rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine approved.
Read more...Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...Moar bad news for the 737 Max.
Read more...Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.
Read more...Next showdown in Congress over CoVID-19 relief legislation: protecting workers or shielding employers from lawsuits.
Read more...The day of reckoning has arrived in oil and gas. A record number of companies have filed for bankruptcy. with the epicenter in Texas.
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