


River restoration funding in the stimulus bill.
From American Rivers on passage of the stimulus bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) in the House last week: H.R. 1 includes $2 billion for drinking water under the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and $6 billion for clean water under the Clean...
Welcome President Obama, welcome back science.
First, my favorite photo of the day. And a paragraph from Obama’s speech that spoke to me: For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act – not only to create new jobs, but to...
More bad science.
While we’re on the topic, I’m a regular reader of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog. He has an especially good year in review post up now. Britain’s Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who has written the weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian...