Will New York State be the first state in the nation to require the labeling of food containing what has become known as GMO -- genetically modified organisms?

More than 60 countries have enacted laws banning the use of GMO in producing food or requiring the

With the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster this week, with North Korea having just threatened a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" against the United States and a U.S. senator saying this would result in "suicide" for North Korea, with Iran suspected of moving to build nuclear weapons, with the...

With the nomination of Ernest Moniz to be the next U.S. secretary of energy, President Barack Obama has selected a man who is not only a booster of nuclear power but a big proponent of fracking, too. What happened to Obama's call for "clean" energy in his 2013 State of...

Soon after Sandy struck, an op-ed piece titled "We Need to Retreat from the Beach" by Dr. Orrin Pilkey, a pioneer in what's now become the science of shoreline dynamics, appeared in the New York Times.

Dr. Pilkey wrote, "As ocean waters warm, the Northeast is likely to...

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced his resignation last week after four years of pushing nuclear power, although he promoted energy efficiency and safe, renewable energy technologies such as solar and wind, too.

But nuclear power remained a major focus of Dr. Chu, a physicist out of...

From seemingly out of nowhere, the Internet has become the greatest global platform for free expression the world has ever seen.

But will this last?

Last month, an international conference was held that pitted nations seeking greater governmental control over the Internet -- led by Russia and China --...

It's what the county legislature in Suffolk County, New York is noted fo r-- passing first-in-the-nation laws. It's done that with laws banning han-held use of cell phones while driving, the sale of drop-side cribs and the supplement ephedra, and many statutes prohibiting smoking in public places. The measures have...

President Barack Obama's demand that taxes of the rich be raised has become a key issue in the battle which, if not settled, could send the United States over a "fiscal cliff" at year's end.

A series of extreme government spending cuts -- including in defense and...

Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking water and groundwater -- it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousands of years.

Issuing a report recently, exposing major radioactive impacts of hydraulic fracturing...

What an ordeal the people of a good part of the United States have been through because of Hurricane Sandy -- and many are still going through! As I write this on Sunday, November 11, electricity is still out to a huge number of homes and businesses on Long Island,...

George McGovern, who died Sunday, was prescient about America. When he ran for president 40 years ago, he well-understood what the federal government of the United States had become, among other national dysfunctions.

It's a shame he wasn't given an opportunity to, as president, change things.

In June 1972,...

Amid the cover-up of the Fukushima nuclear power disaster, the title of Kimberly Roberson's book rings so unfortunately true: Silence Deafening, Fukushima Fallout... A Mother's Response.

It's relatively brief at 69 pages but gets to the heart of the catastrophe: the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex...

It is the "under 1 percent" who come to the vaunted Hamptons by helicopter from Manhattan -- and in the process blanket Long Islanders below with raucous noise.

The racket of helicopters heading to and returning from what has become the main aerial gateway of the Hamptons and Long Island's...

World Nuclear News, the information arm of the World Nuclear Association that seeks to boost the use of atomic energy, last week heralded a NASA Mars rover slated to land on Mars on Monday, the first Mars rover fueled with plutonium.

"A new era of space exploration is dawning through...

Poverty and extreme wealth on Long Island, where I live, have been in the national spotlight in recent days. HBO this month broadcast a powerful documentary "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island." Filmmaker Marc Levin followed four Long Island families who suddenly became poor.
They're not rarities. A commission...

The conclusion of a report of a Japanese parliamentary panel issued last week that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster was rooted in government-industry "collusion" and thus was "man-made" is mirrored throughout the world. The "regulatory capture" cited by the panel is the pattern among nuclear agencies right up...

The National Research Council has issued a report identifying "a number of deficiencies" in an "updated risk assessment" done by the federal government for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF) it wants to build in Kansas to replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center just off...

Nuclear scientists and engineers embrace nuclear power like a religion. The term "nuclear priesthood" was coined by Dr. Alvin Weinberg, long director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the laboratory's website proudly notes this. It's not unusual for scientists at Oak Ridge and other U.S. national nuclear laboratories...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be holding a meeting this week to consider having nuclear power plants run 80 years -- although they were never seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise causing safety problems.

"The idea of keeping these...

The resignation last week of the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is another demonstration of the bankrupt basis of the NRC. Gregory Jaczko repeatedly called for the NRC to apply "lessons learned" from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan. And, for that, the nuclear industry --...