Michael Dudley

The controversial nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada is causing some residents in this swing state to re-think their support for President Bush.

If "demography is destiny" then the United States in the 21st Century will become larger, richer and more powerful than ever.

Oil and gas leases are devastating wilderness areas in Utah, even though these supplies are enough to feed US oil demand for about four days.

With oil hitting $55.00 per barrel, analysts are expecting prices to top $60.00 by the end of the year -- in the middle of northern winter.

Author Wendell Berry mourns the stripping of rural America for its resources, and the gutting of its cities through perverse incentives, thoughtless subsidies, regulatory malfeasance and other "economic weapons of mass destruction."