Researchers found that fish in lakes located at least 30 kilometers (km) from a coal-fired power plant had mercury levels more than three times higher than fish of the same species in lakes that are within 10 km of a plant. Credit: Dana Sackett, North Carolina State University
Study: Fish near coal-fired power plants have lower levels of...
Stimulus Gets High Marks, According to Report Overseen By (wait for it)… Joe Biden
By Doug Powers • October 1, 2010 03:44 PM
**Written by Doug Powers
And the Washington Post takes the handoff and runs with it like LaDainian Tomlinson with nothing but daylight in front of him:
Report gives stimulus high marks
The massive economic stimulus...
On Monday, I argued that the big political mistake of TARP was severing it from financial regulation. There was no immediate punishment or reform connected for the bailout. Of course, financial regulation eventually happened. But as Mike Konczal points out, by that time, the politics of the issue had turned against President Obama so hard that...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Predatory lending aimed at racially segregated minority neighborhoods led to mass foreclosures that fueled the U.S. housing crisis, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review.
Predatory lending typically refers to loans that carry unreasonable fees, interest rates and payment requirements....
