HoustonChronicle - Early Alaska thaws curbing oil search Energy Department seeks new way to lengthen season
Global warming, which most climate experts blame mainly on large-scale burning of oil and other fossil fuels, is interfering with efforts in Alaska to discover yet more oil.
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to help oil companies and Alaska officials find a way around the problem.
Labor's Health Problem By Steve Early, Nation
Where workers have no union-and 87 percent do not-the burden of medical cost inflation is shifted from management to labor with little fuss for the former, regardless of the financial pain inflicted on the latter. In the unionized sector, industrial strife about health insurance is spreading.