Environment

BioFuels and Energy | Environment

05/21/2013

Researchers find broad popular support for wind-energy development in central Indiana counties. But wind-turbine opponents say the study misrepresents public opinion and local government responsibilities.

Ag and Trade | Environment | Politics and Government

Thursday Roundup: What Farm Bill?

05/09/2013

Bureaucrat gone wild • Crucified on a cross of solar panels? • McConnell encourages Kentuckians to avoid tough questions about the future of coal • Sales-tax bill allows tribal groups to audit merchants.

BioFuels and Energy | Environment | Growth and Development | Politics and Government

Speak Your Piece: TVA, Let's Make a Deal

04/16/2013

]President Obama suggests it’s time to sell the beleaguered Tennessee Valley Authority, an “experiment” that began with promise but delivered a series of failures. In a strange twist of fate, a Democratic president is in a stronger position to accomplish what his Republican predecessors could only dream of – getting rid of one of the first creations of FDR's New Deal.

Environment | Main Street Economics

Monday Roundup: Fighting Coal, not Pipeline

04/15/2013

Cool Places | Environment

Deep Into the Light-Hearted Darkness

04/10/2013

In Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp, a Cajun guide takes tourists on a wetlands cruise that’s part ecological wonder, part circus. Keep your hands inside the boat, and don't forget the marshmallows.

Environment | Growth and Development

Public Lands and Per Capita Income

04/04/2013

When rural counties in the West have protected public lands like national parks and wild and scenic rivers, their per capita income tends to be higher. A study looks at economics and protected public lands and offers some possible explanations.

Environment

Ojibwe Women Vow to 'Sit on the Mountain'

03/13/2013

Lake Superior

In Wisconsin, new iron-ore mining legislation threatens the Penokee Mountains, upstream from the Bad River reservation. Some say that Gov. Scott Walker and other mining proponents are about to encounter a force of nature: Objibwe women bent on preserving family and community.

BioFuels and Energy | Environment | Main Street Economics

Life After Coal: Does Wales Point the Way?

03/04/2013

Declining coal production is hurting Appalachia’s economy, which was already in rough shape. Scholars are looking at Wales, which lost its coal economy in the 1980’s, for lessons on how Appalachia might address its economic future.

Environment | Wildlife

Mind and Mussels Clean an Iowa Waterway

01/29/2013

mussels up close How do you restore an impaired stream? In Eastern Iowa, conservationists and farmers are enlisting the appetites of thousands of local mollusks.

Arts and Culture | BioFuels and Energy | Environment

Viewing 'Promised Land' in Fracking Land

01/09/2013

promised land signing up A new feature film about gas fracking in Pennsylvania takes on a controversial rural issue but hasn't fired up opposition to widespread drilling -- at least not yet.