The current issue of the LRB sees 'industry money and government collusion' behind the oil spill (see blog below). In the current issue of the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert even turns on Obama:
Obama inherited an Interior Department that he knew to be plagued by corruption, but he allowed the department’s particularly disreputable Minerals Management Service to party on. Last spring, in keeping with its usual custom, the M.M.S. granted BP all sorts of exemptions from environmental regulations.
Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals
and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn
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Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive
alien species and the knock-on effect of their presence
Britain would be a wa...
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