As the U.S. searches for more sources of energy and as suburbs across the nation grow, a tug-of-war between homeowners and oil and gas drilling companies may be emerging.
In most states that have large mining or oil-and-gas production, surface and mineral rights were severed decades ago. So for every deed
Fuel prices are up for a variety of reasons, say U.S. experts, including soaring demand, tight capacity and environmental regulations.
Fuel-hungry sports-utility vehicles, minivans and pickups make up 43 percent of vehicles on American roads today, up from 30 percent in 1990 a trend that has dragged down overall
The SA Law Commission has released a paper on limited compensation for some victims of crime, including rape victims. According to press reports the proposal suggests that rape victims be awarded the sum of R2,000. The proposal is compassionate, generous and wrong. While no one can question the motives behind
Scientists and engineers have spent several decades trying to develop processes that would allow electricity producers to build non-polluting coal-fuelled plants. But experts say “clean coal” still faces formidable political, economic and technological obstacles.
So it may be many years before clean-coal-burning plants are the norm.
Coal contains dozens of noxious
Early detection and treatment has been the heavily promoted weapon in the battle against breast cancer over the last decade. But Canadian researchers have found that earlier diagnosis does not necessarily lead to earlier treatment with the waiting time between the two actually increasing in recent years in the
Does the U.S. rank 37th among nations in the world in the quality of health care? Actually, it received that ranking in “overall system performance,” in a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, “World Health Report 2000: Health Systems Improving Performance,” which ranked health systems in 191 countries.
But other
Advocates of free trade often point out that it provides nations with new markets for their goods and services. But U.S. President Bush justifies free trade on the grounds that open markets provide “new hope for the world’s poor.”
Economists Stephen L. Parente of the University of Illinois and Edward C.
Immigrants living and working abroad send $20 billion a year to family and friends remaining in Latin America, according to a study conducted by an arm of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The amount already exceeds development assistance and is equal to nearly one-third of all foreign investment in the region.
Opponents of the Bush tax plan are making every possible effort to stop the top income tax rate from being reduced to 33 percent from 39.6 percent.
Yet many of the top rate payers are small businesses that are not organised as corporations and report their profits on individual tax returns.
Despite eight years of Clinton administration energy policies that put conservation above production, energy consumption hasn’t gone down. In fact, it has risen by an average of about 1.7 percent a year since the early 1980s.
Some experts contend that forced conservation distorts supply and demand, and actually causes people to
