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  • Explosion has OSHA Feeling the Heat

    The Occupation Safety and Health Administration is feeling the heat as Congress conducts an investigation into the explosion that killed 13 workers at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA on February 7, 2008. Its not known at this time what caused the explosion. OSHA has created a webpage...

  • A Rejoinder on Free Trade

    We now take a break from our weekly recap of dour economic news to talk about a more fundamental issue, but one relevant to the current political climate: free trade, more specifically, NAFTA. Now that signs of economic weakness have become more abundant, the Democratic Party's candidates have once...

  • "The Latest Watershed You Never Heard Of"

    It's not often these days that the U.S. and EU agree on something related to the environment.But last November they did come together to issue a joint proposal to "Liberalize Trade in Environmental Goods and Services." At its heart initially is a tier of 43 products -- including some turbine...

  • An Environmentalist’s Dilemma

    A California couple was ordered by a judge to cut down two redwoods on their property. The trees blocked sunlight to a neighbor’s backyard solar panels in violation of California’s Solar Shade Control Act. The law requires homeowners to keep their trees or shrubs from shading more than 10 percent of...
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  • So Will the U.S.-Colombia FTA Be Coming Up for Hill Ratification or Not?

    The dance has been most curious. In recent days numerous Administration officials have been ratcheting up the rhetoric about formally sending the Colombia FTA to the Hill and forcing a vote -- without actually stepping over the line and sending it. For its part, the Hill leadership has continued to either...

  • Back to the Stone Age?

    More dire news on the environmental front, according to the WaPo . (So what’s new?) Two recent journal articles – one in Geophysical Research Letters and the other in Global Biogeochemical Cycles – warn us that humans have to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to zero to prevent a “dangerous rise in global...
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  • Sound, Fury, and Buy American

    As you may have seen in the media over the past 24 hours, the Buy American Act is receiving some attention as Congress scrutinizes the Air Force 's decision to award a mega-contract for air tankers to a consortium lead by a European company. In testimony yesterday, the Air Force’s acquisition chief...
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  • Safety of Ohio Residents May Be Compromised

    The safety of some Ohio residents may be compormised if the Ohio Home Builders Association has its way. Read what Pete Baldauf, President, SW Division, Ohio IAEI has to say about this Ohio-IAEI-letter.pdf . To link to the Cleveland Plain Dealer article Pete refers to in his letter, click on http://blog...

  • Revolutionary Old North Church

    AP reported last week that Old North Church , of Paul Revere fame, has continued its “revolutionary” ways by installing Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) to illuminate its ceiling vaults. This follows the installation of compact fluorescent lamps in the “one if by land, two if by sea” lanterns in the steeple...

  • Another Reason for Green Building

    We know buildings are energy guzzlers -- the US Green Building Council says buildings account for 2/3 of electricity consumption and 1/3 of energy use in this country. Now we hear that North American buildings release more than 1/3 of the continent's total CO2 each year. So says the Commission for...
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