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RadioMark Hertsgaard has regularly contributed radio programming for National Public Radio (NPR). This includes political commentator for Living on Earth (to 2003) and more recently environment commentaries for Marketplace, the US's most-listened to business radio programming. Letting polluters off the hookMost global warming bills contain grandfather clauses that give companies free permits for up to 90 percent of their current emissions. >>>> The Cost-Benefit On Global WarmingThe cost of global warming's impacts could cause the worst global downturn since the Great Depression. >>>> Blair's Nuclear DreamNuclear power remains forbiddingly expensive. >>>> The Profits of Global WarmingToday, its denial of global warming thats threatening US jobs and profits. >>>> Monopoly PowerToday, utilities are even more important. Our entire economy depends on electricity and utility assets now amount to one trillion dollars. >>>> Peak Oil ComingConventional wisdom says the magic of the market will solve the problem: higher prices will call forth more supply. In particular, Saudi Arabia is assumed to hold inexhaustible reserves. >>>> Greenwashers celebrate Earth DayCritics call such advertising "greenwashing." By spending tiny sums to publicize misleading claims, polluters can avoid changing the way they do business. >>>> Fighting over a nation's safetyBogdan Dzakovic warned FAA superiors that his team of mock terrorists was getting fake guns onto planes more than 70 percent of the time. He was taken off the job. >>>> China pumps diesel and gasoline pricesChina is growing at the expense of truly awesome environmental sacrifice. >>>> World Bank, Meet the EnvironmentAccording to some analysts, four fifths of all World Bank energy loans have gone to projects whose oil and coal were exported to the United States and other wealthy nations. So, the poor end up subsidizing the rich. >>>> |
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