How many decades has it been since President Nixon declared that the United States would be energy independent  in six years? Every president since has made creating a more secure energy supply a priority. We’d already forgotten the oil spill last summer when the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and the instability in [...]

The first photos of birds covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak have been released, and I couldn’t help being reminded of the sad fate of another bird unable to escape an oily fate.

Okay, this one may be a reach. I wanted somehow to relate two unrelated events with the idea that the eco-terror we inflict on ourselves is as dangerous (probably far more so, in fact) than anything terrorists can do to us. I’ve looked at this cartoon about a dozen times in the last 12 hours, [...]