EnviroMentalog

I’m not going to pretend to know everything there is to know about “borehole thermal energy storage”, but I have to say, at first glance, I am really in love with this idea. Buying cooperatives and collective bargaining are discussed in all sorts of policy circles (health insurance being a popular recent example), but [...]

Risk assessment is an inexact science. In fact, let’s just go ahead and call it an art. Or maybe it would be more accurate to describe it as a knock-down, drag-out, bare-knuckled brawl between government and industry. Because without a formula to dictate when a state or the feds should step in and declare that [...]

A category of air pollution all its own, particulate matter, or PM, is among the most damaging things a person can inhale. The smaller the PM, the greater its ability to lodge deep in the most sensitive parts of the lung, where it can inflict maximum damage. The most dangerous PM are those [...]