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Devil in the Details...the Other "Card Check" Demon

Most of the attention on the misnamed " Employee Free Choice Act " (HR 1409/S 560) has centered on provisions which would effectively strip workers of their right to secret ballot elections in deciding whether to join unions, replacing such elections instead with a "card check" system...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2009 9:26 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Card Check, Labor Unions, EFCA

Should the Chinese Model American Capitalism?

Maybe I'm not as surprised as I should be. According to a recent Business Week commentary, " China Rethinks the American Way ," the Chinese no longer look at U.S. corporate managers as role models. After all, much of the responsibility for the financial implosion of 2008 lies with reckless...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2009 11:53 AM by Stephen Gold

Is There a Ford in Your Future?

With the demise of corporately owned automotive manufacturing in the United States one wonders how the products offered by the remaining one of the once "Big Three" will appeal to the American consumer. Many pundits in their blogs and editorials have been reporting that they are being inundated...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 8:25 AM by Buckson, William

Lighting Technologies Coming Full Circle

I came across a recent article reporting on a University of Rochester discovery of a laser-based manufacturing process that makes regular 60-watt incandescent light bulbs into nanotechnology-enabled ones as bright as a 100-watt bulb, capable of emitting a whiter light, and using no more energy to do...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 1:41 PM by Leibowitz, Mike

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Nanotechnology

No Help Wanted

A new research note by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco explores the likelihood of yet another jobless recovery. The authors note that the relatively low level of temp worker layoffs and high share of involuntary part-time workers (often referred to as underemployment) at this...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 2:43 PM by Brian Lego

Filed under: Economics

"Wireless Waves Harmless" - 1909 Marconi Statement

As noted in the article titled the same as this post, noted scientists, inventors and engineers have come to the same conclusion - that Electromagnetic Fields are safe. Given the ability of microwave emissions from high power radar to fry something in its path, that is not always absolutely true but...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 3:33 PM by Gettman, Kenneth

Filed under: EMF

REACH – Two Years In

Earlier this week I attended a day-long seminar at a DC law firm that provided a status report on implementation of REACH, the ground-breaking regulatory program for chemicals under construction in the European Union. In a landmark “paradigm shift,” the entry-into-force of REACH in 2007 made...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2009 8:58 PM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Environmental Design, Environment

House Committee Seeks Ways to Modernize, Expand Grid

The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on Friday to discuss the future of the transmission grid. As noted in this blog before , obtaining federal permits can sometimes be as time-consuming as coordinating between states. Rich Halvey from the Western Governors Association noted that the...

Published Mon, Jun 15 2009 12:03 PM by Eric Hsieh

Filed under: transmission

Happy High Performance Building Week!

It's High Performance Building Week! I hope you've chosen to commemorate the event appropriately. Or perhaps you've been too caught up in other important affairs -- high school graduations, summer vacations, walking the dog -- to have gotten wind of this momentous occasion. For the record...

Published Tue, Jun 16 2009 7:01 PM by Stephen Gold

Filed under: Energy Efficiency

The High Cost of Fixing our High-Cost Health Care

This week the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee begins its consideration of the "Affordable Health Choices Act," draft legislation sponsored by Senate HELP Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT). This legislation, which requires...

Published Wed, Jun 17 2009 1:26 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Health Care

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