Obama's Green Stimulus Under Scrutiny After Battery Maker Bankruptcy

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Obama's Green Stimulus Under Scrutiny After Battery Maker Bankruptcy With the second presidential debate just hours away, a bankruptcy announced Tuesday by a company that received federal stimulus funding under President Barack Obama threatened to provide new ammunition for critics of the president's energy and environmental spending and put the White House on the defensive. Climate Change Poll Shows Half Of Americans Still Don't Get It Mitt Romney's Day One Promises Include Approving Keystone Pipeline Environmentalists Sue California Over Fracking Regulations Researchers Link Deadliest Tornado Outbreaks To Climate Pattern 4 Wolves Killed During First Day Of Statewide Hunt BLOG POSTS Pierre Ferrari: World Food Day 2012: Heifer International's Cooperatives Will Help Feed the World Today Heifer International joins the FAO and others in observance of World Food Day. This year, the theme "Agricultural Cooperatives -- key to feeding the world" highlights the efforts of smallholder farmers who have united to end hunger. Miyoko Sakashita: Happy Birthday, Clean Water Act: Don't Grow Complacent at 40 Anyone who remembers the infamous impetus for the Act -- the pollution-choked Cuyahoga River catching fire in Cleveland in 1969 -- knows how far we've come and all the good this law has done. Alex Formuzis: The Stanford Study's Pesticide Problem The EPA has estimated that between 10,000 and 20,000 pesticide poisonings occur annually among agriculture workers in the U.S. That's not the case with those folks who labor on organic farms -- another glaring omission by our friends at Stanford. Eva M. Clayton: We Can Both Feed the World and Protect the Planet Between now and 2050, the world faces two critical challenges. First we must feed a hungry planet, amid growing demand from a rising population. And secondly, we must do this while protecting our environment. Tim Mohin: Power, Pollution and the Internet: Right Discussion, Wrong Conclusion Let's stipulate that, like breathing or ocean tides, we cannot and should not stop the trend toward a digital society. Let's also stipulate that it is absolute folly to attempt to regulate what people can and cannot do on the Internet in the name of energy efficiency.

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