Bonanza or Blight? Oregon’s Wind Debate - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

One company working in Oregon, Caithness Energy, has been offering some residents $5,000 if they agree not to challenge noise levels from its new Shepherd’s Flat project, which will be one of the nation’s largest when it is completed.

[More settled science?]: Egg on Their Faces by Steven Malanga, City Journal Summer 2010

Researchers have started asking hard questions about fat consumption and heart disease, and the answers are startling. In an analysis of the daily food intake of some 350,000 people published in the March issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute found no link between the amount of saturated fat that a person consumed and the risk of heart disease.

Hot Air » Climate-control bill missing from Senate agenda as recess approaches

Harry Reid had insisted that the Senate would produce an energy bill before leaving for summer recess and the campaign trail, and Reid fulfilled his promise. There will be a bill on the agenda that relates to energy, albeit in the most tangential manner. The Senate will consider a bill that repeals the liability caps on oil companies for deepwater drilling, but will avoid altogether anything that looks like a climate-change bill
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In a curious reversal, the EPA will have to explain to a court how it can apply a new “tailoring rule” that would allow the agency to keep from enforcing the law on politically-untenable targets, such as churches, schools, and the lawnmowers in the garages of most Americans. The opponents of the EPA regulations have argued that the agency has to apply their rules equally, and cannot pick and choose based on political considerations. The point is that the rules are so damaging and intrusive that enforcement more or less puts the EPA in charge of everything and everyone.

Small wonder that the EPA has put off its rulemaking until January, when it won’t impact the midterms. That’s also why Reid ended up reneging on his vow to press forward with climate-change legislation as well, and why the lame-duck session may loom large for the Kerry-Boxer bill sidelined at the moment.