by Donald Pay Forty years ago a multi-national waste management company sought to bury South Dakota in the nation’s low-level radioactive waste. Governor William Janklow…
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Representative Jon Hansen takes the climate-change-denier position that we should just release all the carbon dioxide we want and let plants eat it. Actual scientists…
Department of Agriculture Heeds Texas Oil Driller’s Complaint, Avoids Stricter Water Pollution Rules
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) thought about requiring better monitoring of water pollution from oil wells. Texas oil weller Citation Oil & Gas…
President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is also a Prairie Pothole Restoration Act. South Dakota will benefit from $23 million of Inflation Reduction Act money…
In another signal that South Dakota values business profits over a healthy environment and quality of life, Governor Kristi Noem last week signed a bill…
In 2007, Transcanada told the Public Utilities Commission that the Keystone pipeline it planned to build through eastern South Dakota on its way from Alberta…
South Dakota’s Nuclear Waste War–Piercing Janklow’s Iron Curtains of Secrecy By Donald Pay The first article in this serialized history of the nuclear waste issue…
South Dakota farmers and Republicans (and thanks to consolidation and corporatization, there’s a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram) are all socialists at heart.…
Author Richard Reeves was on NPR last week expressing concern that modern males need support dealing with with changes in men’s social roles. Most of…
Senator M. Michael Rounds wants the ag-industrial complex to determine whether or not the land they want to tile, plow, and monetize qualifies as wetlands,…