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Michael Grunwald's analysis of wasteful farm-commodity programs and farm-bill politics was right on the money, but his assertion that the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (SAC) "dropped its opposition [to the House farm bill] for scraps" was false [Nov. 12]. SAC celebrated the House Agriculture Committee's increased funding...
Grunwald was right about all that is wrong with farm subsidies. Let's hope that he's wrong about the prospects for eliminating them--that citizens will wake up and demand they be halted. Contrary to the fears of House members Nancy Pelosi and Collin Peterson, a large number of...
One Harvard researcher is devising a plan to take on two of the greatest threats to the Earth’s future—acid rain and global warming. Kurt Z. House, a research assistant in earth and planetary sciences, proposed a process known as electrochemical weathering, which increases the...
CONSERVATION
Humankind doesn't always get a second crack at answering a crisis, but perhaps this fresh encounter with $100 oil amounts to a global do-over. Most of the recommendations in a recent call to arms issued by the National Petroleum Council simply restate what we've known we should...