By JACK SPENCER | Michigan Capitol Confidential

LANSING – Former Vice President Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but apparently President Barack Obama wants voters to believe he created trash collectors and bus drivers.

By Mark Lisheron | Texas Watchdog
AUSTIN – Offering disposable shopping bags to customers will be a crime in Austin beginning in 2016 should the City Council pass an ordinance drafted by the director of Austin Resource Recovery.

By Mark Lisheron
Texas Watchdog

Call out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the World Wide Bird Hotline. The fate of all surface water in Texas rests on the whereabouts of 19 missing cranes.

And if you think this isn’t possible, you haven’t been following a true-life case expected to continue through [...]

AUG. 12, 2011
A culture of complacency still exists after the Sept. 9, 2010 natural-gas explosion in San Bruno, in which eight people were killed and a neighbored leveled. Seventy homes sustained damage and 18 homes adjacent to the destroyed dwellings were left uninhabitable.
In October, the California Public Utility Commission created an independent review panel of industry [...]

By Rob Nikolewski
Back on June 2, the state’s Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) unanimously passed a less costly plan aimed at reducing regional haze from the coal-fired San Juan power plant outside Farmington.
But on Friday (Aug. 5), the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington rejected the plan, insisting the plant be retrofitted with cleaner technololgy. The [...]