On November 20th, 2021, the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Honolulu leaked 14,000 gallons of water and fuel.[1] The facility, constructed in the early 1940s, holds over 100 million gallons of fuel a mere 100 feet above the Southern Oʻahu Basal…
If climate change doesn't slow down based on convenience, then why should our efforts to counter it?
Personal carbon trading refers to a variety of downstream cap-and-trade policies that allocate rights and responsibilities for those greenhouse gas emissions caused by individual consumption of energy during household energy use and/or personal travel…
Spanning the border of Minnesota and Ontario is a pristine wilderness area called the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness, or simply the Boundary Waters. This natural area has held a place of importance for ecologists, outdoor recreationists, and native…
What should regulators pay attention to as rocket launches become more commonplace?
On February 20, 2022, the Ethiopian government announced that its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began producing electricity.[i] The GERD, located on the Nile River, is viewed as a significant economic and symbolic achievement for the embattled…
What is the East African Crude Oil Pipeline? In 2006, Uganda discovered what turned out to be 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable commercial oil in the Albertine Graben Region.[1] Since then, different activities relating to the exploration and potential…
Water is one of the most precious resources on the planet. It is the foundation for life, something we all need to survive. As climate change brings about an increase in global temperature and greater frequency of droughts, usable water will become scarcer…
In 2009, the Obama administration created the electric vehicle tax credit to encourage purchasing electric vehicles (EVs). However, the bill included a built-in phaseout that starts once a manufacturer sells 200,000 electric vehicles. Is the current phaseout quota necessary, or is it ending the tax credit prematurely?
When the New York Court of Appeals agreed in May 2021 to hear the habeas corpus case of an Asian elephant named Happy, it marked the first time that the highest court of any English-speaking jurisdiction agreed to hear a habeas corpus case brought on…
