When businesses ask government to get rid of "pointless red tape", they are getting rid of the protections for the natural world, or your health.

Australia's plutocratist government is abolishing thousands of these regulations at once. This will allow businesses many new ways to mess up people's lives.

China is rushing the development of thorium-based nuclear power plants.

Thorium avoids some of the dangers of using uranium as nuclear fuel, but molten (very hot) fluoride salts leaking out of a reactor are going to be very hard to contain or clean up. I worry what will happen if this is developed in a hurry.

The UK's new energy policy means more pain later instead of some pain now.

US citizens: call on Senator Leahy to stop letting right-wing senators block judicial appointments.

US citizens: call on Obama to ban US contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.