Environment Memo

There’s news about a new Los Angeles  elementary school (ironically named for Al Gore) built on top of a contaminated site. As the LA Times reports Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. Oooops. I thought we learned not to do that after [...]

The German government had planned to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2022. But they are in the process of extending that phase-out, as a bridge to a renewable energy-only future. The key element: they aren’t building any new ones.

I had no idea that one in five adults still smoke in the US. Well, nicotine is addicting, after all.

Interesting material from UC Davis: Recent research has shown searching with dogs can be an effective method for finding bed bug infestations. Under laboratory and simulated-field conditions, using dogs to search for bed bugs was 97% effective. Next up: “The Bedbug Whisperer.”

Wow, I guess we need to be careful with clothes at the clothing store, not to mention the thrift stores such as the Salvation Army.

Bedbugs are big in the news these days. One scary fact: It seems they can go a year or more without eating Hearty little things, aren’t they?

Bjorn Lomborg has apparently defected, calling global climate change “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and calls for the world’s governments to invest tens of billions of dollars annually to fight climate change.