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The proposal will open up much of the Eastern seaboard—from Delaware to central Florida—the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as more of Alaska, to drilling. This near-sighted plan endangers the environment while also doing little to advance the United States?...
“This is an international resource that is being eliminated,” Hamburger said in a recent interview. “To see [the chair] eliminated with such disregard is just incredibly short-sighted.”
Yet the Uruguayan effort is a work in progress and demonstrates a far-sighted outlook on the part of the government that is admirable. Uruguay, of course, has other serious problems that will need to be addressed in order to maintain the welfare of its citizens. However, concern for other...
The university should be commended for making the far-sighted decision to continue aggressively pursuing green initiatives, even while dealing with a budget deficit and other serious financial issues. Seeing these projects through will offer both financial and environmental paybacks that benefit Harvard and its community for the long term...
Roosevelt rode back into office in part on a promise to seek a constitutional way of protecting workers; in 1923, the Supreme Court had struck down a Washington, D.C., minimum-wage law, finding it impeded a worker's right to set his own price for his labor. The first federal...