Environment

A persistent budget shortfall has meant a Park Service that is often unable to imagine what it needs to become to help fulfill America’s best vision of itself.

What do 84.4 million acres of national parks have in common with a B-2 bomber? The annual appropriation for the parks is about the same as that bomber’s life-cycle cost. The result is a National Park Service that is understaffed, under-resourced, and often unable to imagine the park system that would help fulfill America’s best vision of itself.

Attempts to get basic information underlying poll on public support for green energy development are rebuffed by the Financial Times and its source for the poll. According to the president of American Association for Public Opinion Research, “Once the story has been written, you really cannot claim exclusivity" as to data needed to assess a poll.

Attempts to get basic information underlying poll on public support for green energy development are rebuffed.

Miss this? For all the talk among “pro-business” politicians about spending and tax cuts as the formula for economic recovery, many leaders of coal, oil, agribusiness, and barge and shipping companies want Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers to get serious about maintaining and upgrading the nation’s inland and coastal waterways.

Joined by some center-right Democrats, GOP shows strength of anti-EPA, anti-science forces in Congress.