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Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury and host of the nationally syndicated TV program Enviro Close-Up (www.envirovideo.com)
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Monday, July 27, 2020
Multi-Million $ Nuclear Corruption in Ohio The U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI last week charged the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and four others in a $61 million scheme to use $1 billion in ratepayers money to keep two decrepit nuclear power plants operating. And, said the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, David DeVillers: "This is by no means over. We are going to continue this investigation."
Monday, July 27, 2020Multi-Million $ Nuclear Corruption in Ohio The U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI last week charged the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and four others in a $61 million scheme to use $1 billion in ratepayers money to keep two decrepit nuclear power plants operating. And, said the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, David DeVillers: "This is by no means over. We are going to continue this investigation."
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Sunday, July 22, 2018
Was Trump's Day in Helsinki A Day of Infamy Moment Will Donald Trump's performance at Helsinki be a "day of infamy" as CNN anchor Chris Cuomo declared? Will it be a turning point in his presidency -- bringing him down like Senator Joseph McCarthy was brought down?
Sunday, July 22, 2018Was Trump's Day in Helsinki A Day of Infamy Moment Will Donald Trump's performance at Helsinki be a "day of infamy" as CNN anchor Chris Cuomo declared? Will it be a turning point in his presidency -- bringing him down like Senator Joseph McCarthy was brought down?
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Science and Scientific Vested Interests There is science -- and then there is scientific vested interests. There is a major push for making science the basis for governmental decision-making. But what about the push by some scientists to politically further areas of science and technology that they favor. Science might be objective -- but that doesn't mean all scientists are.
Thursday, August 27, 2020Science and Scientific Vested Interests There is science -- and then there is scientific vested interests. There is a major push for making science the basis for governmental decision-making. But what about the push by some scientists to politically further areas of science and technology that they favor. Science might be objective -- but that doesn't mean all scientists are.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Disaster Waiting to Happen at Indian Point An explosion and fire at a transformer at the Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant this weekend was but one of the many accidents that have occurred at the aged, problem-plagued Indian Point nuclear power station 26 miles north of New York City--a disaster waiting to happen.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015Disaster Waiting to Happen at Indian Point An explosion and fire at a transformer at the Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant this weekend was but one of the many accidents that have occurred at the aged, problem-plagued Indian Point nuclear power station 26 miles north of New York City--a disaster waiting to happen.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
On Mayor Bloomberg's Push to Ban Polystyrene Food Packaging New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week announced he would push for a ban on polystyrene food packaging. But he will face vested interests that will attempt to block his initiative. His proposed ban is not new in the New York area. Suffolk County on Long Island enacted a first-in-the-United States ban on the use of polystyrene food containers 25 years ago and what a battle it was!
Saturday, February 23, 2013On Mayor Bloomberg's Push to Ban Polystyrene Food Packaging New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week announced he would push for a ban on polystyrene food packaging. But he will face vested interests that will attempt to block his initiative. His proposed ban is not new in the New York area. Suffolk County on Long Island enacted a first-in-the-United States ban on the use of polystyrene food containers 25 years ago and what a battle it was!
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Scientific Expert: Horseshoe Crabs Facing Extinction A world expert on horseshoe crabs is worried about their extinction after 455 million years of life on Earth -- largely because of the crab having become a delicacy in nations in Asia. Dr. John T. Tanacredi has studied horseshoe crabs for decades.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016Scientific Expert: Horseshoe Crabs Facing Extinction A world expert on horseshoe crabs is worried about their extinction after 455 million years of life on Earth -- largely because of the crab having become a delicacy in nations in Asia. Dr. John T. Tanacredi has studied horseshoe crabs for decades.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Inviting Atomic Catastrophe The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be holding a meeting this week to consider having nuclear power plants run 80 years--although they were never seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise causing safety problems. The NRC has already extended the operating licenses of most U.S. nuclear plants so they can run 60 years. The NRC is inviting atomic catastophe.
Monday, June 4, 2012Inviting Atomic Catastrophe The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be holding a meeting this week to consider having nuclear power plants run 80 years--although they were never seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise causing safety problems. The NRC has already extended the operating licenses of most U.S. nuclear plants so they can run 60 years. The NRC is inviting atomic catastophe.
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Monday, November 24, 2014
Plans for Nuclear Rockets in the Wake of Recent Space Accidents The recent crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space-flight equation--as the U.S. and Russia still plan.
Monday, November 24, 2014Plans for Nuclear Rockets in the Wake of Recent Space Accidents The recent crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space-flight equation--as the U.S. and Russia still plan.
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
A Highly Aggressive U.S. "Defense Space Strategy" The United States "must be capable of winning wars that extend into space", asserts a just-released "Defense Space Strategy" report. It is the first space-strategy document issued by the U.S. since President Donald Trump, after declaring that the U.S. must achieve "dominance in space", signed a measure this past December authorizing establishing a Space Force.
Thursday, July 2, 2020A Highly Aggressive U.S. "Defense Space Strategy" The United States "must be capable of winning wars that extend into space", asserts a just-released "Defense Space Strategy" report. It is the first space-strategy document issued by the U.S. since President Donald Trump, after declaring that the U.S. must achieve "dominance in space", signed a measure this past December authorizing establishing a Space Force.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Avoiding Nuclear Destruction: By The Skin Of Our Teeth As Thanksgiving 2010 arrives, thanks should be given for something that never happened decades ago: the use of bases built all over the U.S. armed with BOMARC and Nike Hercules nuclear-tipped missiles. Wth nuclear technology still being promoted and a move underway to block ratification of a new nuclear arms pact between the U.S. and Russia, how long will we able to avoid nuclear destruction by the skin of our teeth?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010Avoiding Nuclear Destruction: By The Skin Of Our Teeth As Thanksgiving 2010 arrives, thanks should be given for something that never happened decades ago: the use of bases built all over the U.S. armed with BOMARC and Nike Hercules nuclear-tipped missiles. Wth nuclear technology still being promoted and a move underway to block ratification of a new nuclear arms pact between the U.S. and Russia, how long will we able to avoid nuclear destruction by the skin of our teeth?
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Saturday, December 9, 2023
Push for Nuclear Power at UN's COP28 Climate Change Conference "U.S. leads coalition to triple nuclear power by 2050 in effort to address climate change," was the headline of a December 4th CNBC conference called COP28 being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on the climate crisis. Indeed, that was what has happened--despite evidence that nuclear power is not the antidote to climate change, stopping the burning of fossil fuels and utilizing truly green energy led by solar and wind is.
Saturday, December 9, 2023Push for Nuclear Power at UN's COP28 Climate Change Conference "U.S. leads coalition to triple nuclear power by 2050 in effort to address climate change," was the headline of a December 4th CNBC conference called COP28 being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on the climate crisis. Indeed, that was what has happened--despite evidence that nuclear power is not the antidote to climate change, stopping the burning of fossil fuels and utilizing truly green energy led by solar and wind is.
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Friday, April 30, 2021
Weapons in Space "Cannot Be Walked Back" "Let's be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back," says retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb. And the world is at a crossroads in this regard. Russia and China -- and U.S. neighbor Canada -- have been pressing for an expansion of the Outer Space Treaty that would ban all weapons in space. But the has been opposing this at the United Nations.
Friday, April 30, 2021Weapons in Space "Cannot Be Walked Back" "Let's be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back," says retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb. And the world is at a crossroads in this regard. Russia and China -- and U.S. neighbor Canada -- have been pressing for an expansion of the Outer Space Treaty that would ban all weapons in space. But the has been opposing this at the United Nations.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Revenge of the Jellyfish There's been an explosion of jellyfish in waters around the world--with global warming a prime cause.
Friday, October 1, 2010Revenge of the Jellyfish There's been an explosion of jellyfish in waters around the world--with global warming a prime cause.
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Ben Jones' Crusade Against Tailgating Ben Jones, at 92 the oldest paradmedic in New York State (and probably in the U.S.) has for decades been on a crusade to get action on tailgating. The key problem, he says, is that virtually all motorists in the nation have been -- and continue to be -- incorrectly taught about the distance they should be driving behind the vehicle in front of them.
Saturday, March 14, 2015Ben Jones' Crusade Against Tailgating Ben Jones, at 92 the oldest paradmedic in New York State (and probably in the U.S.) has for decades been on a crusade to get action on tailgating. The key problem, he says, is that virtually all motorists in the nation have been -- and continue to be -- incorrectly taught about the distance they should be driving behind the vehicle in front of them.
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
Secret Diablo Canyon Report Exposed As aftershocks of the 6.0 Napa earthquake Sunday in California continued, the Associated Press this week revealed a secret government report pointing to major earthquake vulnerabilities at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plants which are a little more than 200 miles away and sitting amid a webwork of earthquake faults.
Thursday, September 4, 2014Secret Diablo Canyon Report Exposed As aftershocks of the 6.0 Napa earthquake Sunday in California continued, the Associated Press this week revealed a secret government report pointing to major earthquake vulnerabilities at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plants which are a little more than 200 miles away and sitting amid a webwork of earthquake faults.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
A Hard Rain Fallin': The Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead The crash last week of a U.S. drone on the Seychelles Islands--the second crash of a U.S. drone on Seychelles in four months--underlines the deadly folly of a plan of U.S. national laboratory scientists and the Northrop Grumman Corp. for nuclear-powered drones. Meanwhile, there are other plans, some moving ahead, to use nuclear power overhead.
Thursday, April 12, 2012A Hard Rain Fallin': The Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead The crash last week of a U.S. drone on the Seychelles Islands--the second crash of a U.S. drone on Seychelles in four months--underlines the deadly folly of a plan of U.S. national laboratory scientists and the Northrop Grumman Corp. for nuclear-powered drones. Meanwhile, there are other plans, some moving ahead, to use nuclear power overhead.
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Friday, March 3, 2017
New York -- An Empire State for Billboards- Leaving New York State and entering Vermont is almost like going to another country. One leaves the billboards and other signs that litter the New York landscape and go to a state that is billboard-free. In recent times, adding to its sign pollution, New York State has erected--all over Long Island and upstate--signs boosting itself. And there is a strong negative reaction to the signs blighting the state's landscape.
Friday, March 3, 2017New York -- An Empire State for Billboards- Leaving New York State and entering Vermont is almost like going to another country. One leaves the billboards and other signs that litter the New York landscape and go to a state that is billboard-free. In recent times, adding to its sign pollution, New York State has erected--all over Long Island and upstate--signs boosting itself. And there is a strong negative reaction to the signs blighting the state's landscape.
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Friday, March 15, 2019
Trump Push for Offshore Oil Drilling The Trump administration is pushing for offshore oil drilling although it is regularly disastrous -- and unnecessary amid a worldwide glut of oil. The Trump drive is strongly opposed by coastal states and environmental organizations.
Friday, March 15, 2019Trump Push for Offshore Oil Drilling The Trump administration is pushing for offshore oil drilling although it is regularly disastrous -- and unnecessary amid a worldwide glut of oil. The Trump drive is strongly opposed by coastal states and environmental organizations.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Nuclear Power/Nuclear Weapons -- and A Precarious Future With the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster this week, with North Korea having just threatened a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" against the United States and a U.S. senator saying this would result in "suicide" for North Korea, with Iran suspected of moving to build nuclear weapons, with the continuing spread of nuclear technology globally, the future looks precarious as to humankind and the atom.
Monday, March 11, 2013Nuclear Power/Nuclear Weapons -- and A Precarious Future With the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster this week, with North Korea having just threatened a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" against the United States and a U.S. senator saying this would result in "suicide" for North Korea, with Iran suspected of moving to build nuclear weapons, with the continuing spread of nuclear technology globally, the future looks precarious as to humankind and the atom.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Solar-energized Juno to Arrive at Jupiter on Independence Day What NASA insisted for decades could not be -- a spacecraft using solar energy rather than nuclear power going beyond the orbit of Mars -- will be proven false next Monday, July 4th, Independence Day, when the solar-energized Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter. In space, as on Earth, solar power works.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016Solar-energized Juno to Arrive at Jupiter on Independence Day What NASA insisted for decades could not be -- a spacecraft using solar energy rather than nuclear power going beyond the orbit of Mars -- will be proven false next Monday, July 4th, Independence Day, when the solar-energized Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter. In space, as on Earth, solar power works.
