Posts Tagged ‘precautionary principle’

Should the Precautionary Principle Shut Down Wind Turbines?

November 18, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in birds, ecology, Energy, environment, environmental journalism, wildlife, wind farms, wind turbines | 86 comments

In 2012 Scientific American asked: Are Wind Turbines Getting More Bird and Bat-Friendly? In case you weren’t aware, wind energy has an ecological downside that’s hasn’t yet been smoothed out. As AP reporter Dina Cappiello wrote earlier this year, “the green industry is allowed to do not so green things”: It kills protected species with impunity and conceals the…Continue Reading…

Exploiting the Precautionary Principle

May 9, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in precautionary principle, science, science journalism, select | 26 comments

There are a couple of ways to interpret the story about a revoked ordinance in San Francisco that, as Reuters reports, would have been the first in the United States to require [cell phone] retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels. Before it was reversed it was known as–get ready for it–the “right…Continue Reading…