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Guest column: Are electric cars greener? Depends on where you live

Los Angeles Times November 30, 2014

Long thought a thing of the future, electric cars are becoming mainstream. Sales in the United States of plug-in, electric vehicles nearly doubled last year. Credible forecasts see the number rising within...

A step forward on countering global warming

Los Angeles Times November 20, 2014

Global warming talks in Paris next year have a better chance of reaching a productive conclusion now that the two biggest economies in the world, which also happen to be the two biggest climate polluters,...

Guest Column: From the FDA, a mixed bag of food labels

Los Angeles Times March 2, 2014

The U.S. Food and Drug administration broke new ground in consumer protection when it required, more than 20 years ago, the now-familiar nutrition labels on virtually every bit of packaged food. Now, the...

Guest column: Obama takes a step back from unfettered surveillance

Doyle McManus January 20, 2014

Individually, the concrete steps President Obama announced Friday toward reforming the National Security Agency's surveillance programs were modest. Taken together, though, they signal the end of an era...

Guest Column: The 50-year war on smoking

Los Angeles Times January 13, 2014

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, Jan. 10:The 1964 U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking — the first official acknowledgment by the federal government that smoking...