Posts Tagged ‘ Chesapeake Bay ’

Sea Water Rising at Norfolk, Va.

November 26, 2010
The harbor at Norfolk Virginia

While the rising oceans of a warming world eat away at, among many other places, the city of Norfolk Virginia, the state’s wingnut attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, spends his days suing the federal government to prevent it from regulating greenhouse gases, and trying to convict a University of Virginia scientist of fraud for having the [...]


The Continuing Assisted Suicide of the Chesapeake Bay

November 8, 2010

Since the 1970s, Maryland, Virginia and the Federal government have from time to time announced new initiatives to “clean up” the Chesapeake Bay. The term is quaint, and brings to mind activities like hauling old tires and discarded refrigerators out of the water. Would that it were that easy.