The annual Arctic Report Card is out, and the grades aren’t good. According to the report, Arctic temperatures are rising again after a year of relatively slow warming in 2009. This increase in temperature is a great cause for concern as atmospheric scientists attribute the melting of Arctic ice caps and glaciers as a cause of the severe storms that hit the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States earlier this year.


CONSEQUENCES
SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).