The U.S. House of Representatives killed a bill Thursday that Democrats, including Kathy Castor, had pushed as a way to spur drilling on 68 million acres of government land already leased by oil and gas companies in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 18, 2008

The House today killed a bill that Democrats including Kathy Castor had pushed as a way to spur more drilling on 68 million acres of government land already leased by oil and gas companies in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 17, 2008

A new study says global warming and population growth threaten the Southeast's already precarious water supplies by fueling more extreme weather and degrading water quality. ...more

July 12, 2008

Let's talk energy prices because some of us can no longer afford to drive to work. ...more

July 10, 2008

Our politicians are asking us to allow offshore and wildlife refuge drilling to increase the amount of oil available and lower gas prices. These requests make a rational mind believe we must have run out of land to develop for oil. Nothing could be further from the truth. ...more

July 9, 2008

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. ...more

July 4, 2008

Farmers will harvest nearly 9 percent fewer acres of corn this year than last year, in part because of Midwest flooding that has damaged a portion of the crop, the government reported Monday. ...more

July 1, 2008

A massive program for buying conservation land that started two decades ago has been extended for 10 more years. ...more

July 1, 2008

7 million acres of rural and natural land lost to massive development and a population that had doubled to 36 million. ...more

June 23, 2008

Our ancestors probably didn't care about political land boundaries as they migrated across and populated the American frontier. As their storytellers, we often are thwarted by those very boundaries and their frequent changes. ...more

June 22, 2008