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Another nice piece of reporting from The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/04/us-coal-plants-contaminating-groundwater-toxins-analysisutm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAzMDQ%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email&gt; Headlines Environment / Most US coal plants are ‘contaminating groundwater with toxins’ Of 265 US power plants that monitor groundwater, 242 report unsafe levels of at least one pollutant derived from … Continue reading →

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From The Guardian — The long read: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story . The long … Continue reading →

From the best regional journalists in the USA — High Country News. [A great article, written OK . . . . but the issue itself is really important . . . ] Energy & Industry When your neighborhood goes boom … Continue reading →

Professor Werner Moss, the patrician head of the Government Department at William & Mary in 1960, didn’t teach it exactly the same way to both Kincey and I, but as an observation, I think he would agree with Rat. But … Continue reading →

On this, the date of the annual Carnival in Brooklyn, an appropriate time to celebrate the accomplishments of the great steel pan designer and promoter, Ellie Mannette, and his Mannette Musical Instruments. of Morgantown, West Virginia. Ellie of course was … Continue reading →

This first from the Sunday — NY Times Book Review: Nonfiction Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality Inside view at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last year.CreditCreditMichel Euler/Associated Press Review by Joseph E. Stiglitz                                                                 Aug. 20, … Continue reading →

This Associated Press dispatch by Ellen Knickmeyer (from the National Post) discusses another major underlying government-wide policy change that the Trump Administration thinks it will get away with. This policy says that energy efficiency, and specifically limiting petroleum product use … Continue reading →