Category Archives: policy

a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government. in representative government, choices are made between various alternative policies after analysis as to which will most achieve a given set of goals, in light of the relations between the policies and the goals. Policy analysis can be divided into two major fields. Analysis of policy, which is analytical and descriptive, attempts to explain policies and their development. Analysis for policy is prescriptive.

Ah, Chernobyl Zombie Season in Washington

Oh, global No theater. Yes, they do tragedies in a very, refined manner. Well, mining and refining.

Is that all you blighters can do?

Taken from blight, e.g., a bad case of the humans

Through the Oil Slick Looking Glass

“The dream-child moving through the land
of wonders wild and new”

Consequence 09

A former vice president says there is a place for civil disobedience. A current senator evokes a counterculture image. Anyone else sense the desperation amidst the Washington Theater?

Cooking the Books along with Everything and Everyone Else

As S.1733 makes its way to the Senate floor and as nations prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, observers hold their breath…
“Concerned whether the U.S. will take part in a new international treaty to slow climate change?”
No, because of the particulate matter from the Capitol coal plant.

Can Big Farm Practice Sustainable Agriculture?

Methane comprises about 18% of total GHGs; however, it is 23 times more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Nearly 40% of methane is due to industrial farming, much of this from factory farms.

Cut the Coal Subsidies

Will the world community use economic pressure upon the two largest greenhouse gas emitters?

Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

Besides aggressively pursuing the elusive butterfly of CCS, the Senate bill will have a nuclear title and drilling title.

No Hope in Hogging

“But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me.”

The Big Shill

Since the crisis is other than on their shift and the public has yet to bang on the doors yelling for something to be done, our policy makers go on with politics as usual with but a few misgivings…

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