Author: Steven D

This is a follow-up to my post last night regarding the enormous methane hotspot over the Four Corners area in the Southwest. The EPA estimates of methane emissions from oil and gas drilling are compiled using the industry’s own...

I am running on fumes. And so apparently is the Southwestern U.S., where satellite imagery has revealed a methane hotspot, that is leaking methane (a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting) into...

Yes, when the world’s leading nations get criticized by the head of the World Bank for blowing their response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa (now a pandemic coming soon to a hospital near you), you know the pooch was...

Let me begin this rant on a personal note: I have a hearing test this afternoon. My private healthcare insurance covers one free hearing test each year, and one free eye test each year. What my private health care insurance plan...

Remember the LIBOR scandal? [P]erhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that’s...