Thursday, November 28, 2002

Bush Plan Gives More Discretion to Forest Managers on Logging. The Bush administration proposed to give forest managers more discretion to approve commercial activities with less evaluation of potential environmental damage. By Robert Pear. [New York Times: Science] The remarkable thing about the Bushian ideology is that local control is good if it reduces environmental protection (eg forestry), but bad if increases environmental protection (eg clean air). 8:01:20 AM    comment []  trackback []

EIA: US renewable energy use declines 12% from 2000 to 2001 Biomass surpasses hydro; both decline. Renewable electric generating capacity increased modestly; wind power provided most of the 1,803-megawatt capacity increase. The five leading States for renewable generation during 2000 were: Washington, California, Oregon, New York, and Idaho. 7:43:52 AM    comment []  trackback []