Return of the Once-Rare Beaver? Not in My Yard. - NYTimes.com

Around the nation, decades of environmental regulation, conservation efforts and changing land use have brought many species, like beavers, so far back from the brink that they are viewed as nuisances. As Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, put it, “We are finding they are inconvenient.”

Corn growers rally to fend off ethanol critics | Political Fix | STLtoday

Among those on hand in the gathering was Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, who argued that corn-made ethanol has being portrayed as an “evil” for its impact on food prices and the environment.

“Tell me what we have done to reduce our imports of foreign fuel. One thing is ethanol,” Shimkus said.

“Relying on (Venezuelan president Hugo) Chavez and the Middle East is stupid policy,” he added.

The Global Warming International Flight Tax » The Foundry

As liberal environmentalists and tax-happy politicians scheme over strategies to hike international flight rates to raise funds to address alleged global warming, North Dakotans are celebrating snowfalls in June. Anomalies like snow in June certainly don’t refute that the planet is warming, but there does exist a widening of disconnect between hard evidence indicating global warming and the policy prescriptions designed in its name.