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...energy companies to drill and produce on land without so much as notifying or paying damages to its surface owner. But even that measure of protection is at risk in a political scuffle between Wyoming and federal authorities. In a letter to the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Kathleen Clarke, the BLM's director, indicated that federal rules trumped the state law that Wyoming had just passed. Clarke promised to work closely with the state "to ensure fair protection of surface-owner interests." Governor Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat up for re-election in November, says that isn't enough...
...year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, insurance companies have settled 95% of homeowners' claims, paying out $16.4 billion. But the industry remains mired in related lawsuits, which could raise prices and lower availability. Allstate CEO Edward Liddy tells TIME's KATHLEEN KINGSBURY how his business must evolve to keep underwriting the American Dream...
More encouraging is the fact that Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and the state legislature managed to pass mandatory building codes this year. Most states already have such codes. Florida has had a strict one in place since 2001, and structures built under it tend to be the ones left standing after a 120 m.p.h. wind rips through. We know that for every dollar spent on that kind of basic mitigation, society saves an average of $4, according to a 2005 report by the nonprofit National Institute of Building Sciences. Then there's Mississippi, which, believe it or not, still...
...close of the Boulder workshop this year, Kathleen Tierney, head of the Natural Hazards Center, stood up to say, "We as human societies have yet to understand ... that nature doesn't care. And for that reason, we must care." She was quoting herself intentionally. She had said the same thing the year before, seven weeks before Katrina. As she spoke, her voice rose: "Here we stand one year later. Where is the political will to protect lives and property...
...American Bar Association (ABA) taskforce that included Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and former Harvard Law professor Kathleen M. Sullivan rebuked President Bush for the scope and number of his signing statements, which give the president the right to disregard provisions of laws he deems unconstitutional...