Environment

EPA Requiring Ships to Better Clean Dumped Ballast Water That’s Blamed for Invasive Species

Posted March 30th, 2013 by Washington Post

Americans Believe in Climate Change Risks But Won’t Pay to Fix Them – Survey

Posted March 29th, 2013 by Guardian

Is the U.S. Exporting Coal Pollution?

Posted March 29th, 2013 by Scientific American

EPA Plans Rules on Clean Gas

Posted March 29th, 2013 by CNN

Difference Engine: End the Ethanol Tax

Posted March 29th, 2013 by Economist

Biofuels Advance Economy, Society

Posted March 29th, 2013 by Politico Op-Ed

Oceans: Environmental Victim or Savior?

Posted March 25th, 2013 by CNN Op-Ed

Domestic Production Poised to Surpass Imports

Posted March 25th, 2013 by Real Clear Energy

Are Democrats Tearing Themselves Apart?

Posted March 23rd, 2013 by National Review

Fund Green Infrastructure, but Not With Cap-and-Trade

Posted March 21st, 2013 by Huffington Post Columnist

Latest State

State Lawmakers Vote No on Flaws, Yes to Retouching

Shocker! Solons Get Photoshop Help in Official Portraits

By Melissa Santos | The News Tribune
PDC: Tacoma PAC That Sent Attack Mailers Against Connelly Violated State Law

State's Million-Dollar Candidate Was Attacked by Supporters of Jeannie Darneille

By Lewis Kamb | The News Tribune
Students Help Expand Scholarship Opportunities

Washington State’s Opportunity Scholarship Program is Right to Turn to its Scholars for Help Broadening and Deepening the Program’s Reach

By Editorial
It’s Harder to be a Husky This Year — More Turned Away at UW

By Katherine Long | Seattle Times
Scholarships Aim to Encourage Students to Study Science, Engineering

Boeing, Microsoft Kick in $25 Million for Scholarship Program

By Glenn Farley | KING-5 TV
The First Cohort of Scholars

Washington State Opportunity Scholarship Program is Worthy of Support

By Editorial | The (Everett) Herald
Environmental Coalition Wants Single Coal Port Study

Advocates Call it a Delaying Tactic

By Bill Sheets | The (Everett) Herald

Latest National/World

Analysis: Obama Expresses Regrets But Seeks To Retain Anti-Terror Powers

“To put it crassly, the president sought to rebuke his own administration for taking the positions it has — but also to make sure that it could continue to do so.”

By Washington Post
Low-Skilled Workers Get Raw Deal Under Obamacare

Obamacare's requirement that insurance policies include "essential" benefits such as mental health services apply only to small businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

By Real Clear Politics
Seven Thrilling Facts About Carbon Taxes from the CBO

The burden imposed by a tax of $20 per ton on CO2 emissions would amount to 1.8 percent of before-tax income for households in the lowest quintile and about 0.7 percent of before-tax income for households in the highest quintile.

By Washington Post
German Solar Will Cost 4X Finnish Nuclear

The Olkiluoto nuclear reactor in Finland is commonly perceived as the poster child of construction delays and cost overruns.

By Real Clear Energy
How Ideas From Private Industry Help Combat Medicare Fraud, Waste, And Abuse

Such fraud-control programs in consumer banking have reduced losses by more than two-thirds over twenty years despite more sophisticated and more global fraud activities.

By Health Affairs
UK: Soldier’s Murder May Be Terror-Related

Prime Minister Cameron condemns attack in London in which soldier was hacked to death and says Islam must not be blamed.

By Al Jazeera
Do Charter Schools Work?

The latest findings, based on six well-regarded charter schools in Boston, released Wednesday by the Boston Foundation adds to the accumulating evidence that at least a subset of high-performing charters are measuring up to the movement’s early aspirations of giving disadvantaged kids a shot at a better life.

By Slate