An article in the Houston Chronicle details how the US Corps of Engineers bulldozed the Mississippi Delta to bring Katrina's storm surge right into New Orleans -- in the name of growth. Read More...

Since the production of ethanol made from corn and other foodstocks became a national priority, the demand for the fuel has been creating a slow-motion disaster of epic proportions. It has produced world-wide hunger and millions of acres of deforestation, while indirectly causing massive increases in greenhouse emissions. The consequences down the line are... Read More...

Michael Grunwald's article in Time Magazine nails together the issues of food-based ethanol production, massive deforestation and the resulting increase in greenhouse gases. Read More...

Corn- and soybean-based ethanol isn't all that's causing hunger, but our use of feedcrops to produce fuel is a big factor, as this article notes. Read More...

For those of us who really want to know, the Renewable Fuels Association supplies a really simple description of how its done -- wet and dry methods for corn, and a different system for cellulosic ethanol. Read More...

Written from an investor's point of view, this article really lays it out how the price of corn is related to the price of gasoline and to government mandates to include ethanolin the fuel you buy at the pump. Read More...

The Manhattan Institute scholar and conservative columnist, Max Schultz,  uses his considerable wit to shoot at anything that’s environmentally positive. ”Wind, solar, and other so-called renewable-energy sources play negligible roles in our energy economy because they fail in competition with oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power,” he wrote. If he had his way,... Read More...

Rising oil prices have prompted an increased demand for food-based fuels. As Lester Brown writes in this article in The Globalist, the increasing production of food-based fuels could cause more people to suffer from hunger and add to global political instability. Read More...

"Construction of roads and pad sites can cause erosion and sedimentation pollution in some of our highest-quality streams. Excessive water withdrawals from smaller streams can result in the loss of aquatic life." -- An angler's view of gas drilling in the Pennsylvania forest. Read More...

The view of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in 2008, when visions of millions of dollars started dancing before the eyes of landowners in southern New York State. Read More...