Earth Day Reflections: Plastic Ocean Patches, Hermaphrodite Fish and No Talk of Cap and Dividend
By Laura Kiesel04/22/2010
Today is Earth Day. I started my morning, as I almost always do, looking up the latest environmental news brought to my email Inbox by the Society of Environmental Journalists. Today's news consisted of: a killer whale who died off the coast of the Puget Sound gorged on plastic debris and other garbage (the objects didn't kill him, though scientists think it might have been the ingestion of invisible industrial chemicals), the latest update about yesterday's explosion of an offshore oil rig off our Southeastern coast, and an AP article about the events that spurred the first Earth Day with a comparison about our current state of the environment.
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No Need for Wise Men?
By Kenneth E. Feltman04/10/2010
You go through the gate. If the gate's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole-vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we are going to get healthcare reform passed for the American people.
- Nancy Pelosi
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