Month: May 2011

Another non-industry sponsored study has found that hydro-fracking contaminates the water supply. Methane leaks are contaminating drinking water near shale gas drilling sites in the northeastern United States, scientists said...

I saw somewhere that Rep. Thad McCotter (R-MI) is not planning to run for reelection. In itself, that’s not very interesting, but now the Moonie Times is floating him as a presidential contender, touting his opposition to...

Theo Padnos’s long piece on Syria is welcome reading as the U.S. Government begins to seriously consider declaring Assad’s rule illegitimate. It’s a sign of how complex it is to navigate the Middle East that...

Heard the one about the 900 papers that dispute global warming? It’s been the big new meme in the Global Denial-o-sphere this year. Well, The Carbon Brief did a little analysis of all those papers and guess what they...

That 28% of home mortgages are underwater doesn’t surprise me. But this does: In Las Vegas, 85 percent of homes with mortgages were underwater, the most of any city tracked by Zillow. Other metropolitan areas in the top...