Category: waste

Ernst Squeal Award to Biden for Grant to Hackers Group That Creates ‘Enemies Lists’ of Policy Critics

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) gave her final Squeal Award of 2022 to President Joe Biden for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) grant to an obscure group that rates U.S. media outlets and individuals on social media on the basis of how strongly they back federal policies. “The Biden administration is paying more than $5 million…


‘Poorly Targeted’ $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program Only Reached 25 Percent of Employees: Study

A multi-billion-dollar pandemic-era stimulus program meant chiefly to help small businesses keep staff on the payroll and hire back laid off employees was poorly targeted, with only about one-quarter of the money supporting jobs that would otherwise have disappeared, a new Fed report shows. Lockdowns and a collapse in consumer spending during the first wave…


75 Percent of ‘Poorly Targeted’ $800 Billion PPP Money Sent to Unintended Recipients: Study

A multi-billion-dollar pandemic-era stimulus program meant chiefly to help small businesses keep staff on the payroll and hire back laid off employees was poorly targeted, with only about one-quarter of the money supporting jobs that would otherwise have disappeared, a new Fed report shows. Lockdowns and a collapse in consumer spending during the first wave…


Disposal Plan Needed for Tonnes of Future Wind Turbine Waste: Expert

Over 40 million tonnes of “blade waste” will need to be disposed of worldwide by 2050, spurring engineering and manufacturing experts to call on governments to implement “end of life” plans for the plethora of wind farms now emerging across developed countries. A new study involving Professor Peter Majewski from the University of South Australia…


Pentagon’s Bureaucratic Waste Ensures US Loses Ground to China: Former Chief Software Officer

News Analysis Bureaucracy and waste are hamstringing U.S. military development and adversely affecting the nation’s military readiness, according to the former chief software officer of the Air Force. That means the United States is less prepared for a potential conflict with China. “Any bureaucracy which slows down outcomes for the sake of bureaucracy is going…


US Losing Ground to China Due to Pentagon’s Wasteful Bureaucracy: Former Chief Software Office

News Analysis Bureaucracy and waste are hamstringing U.S. military development and adversely affecting the nation’s military readiness, according to the former chief software officer of the Air Force. That means the United States is less prepared for a potential conflict with China. “Any bureaucracy which slows down outcomes for the sake of bureaucracy is going to…


Britain Wasting Billions on Defence, Says Spending Watchdog

Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money have been wasted as the Ministry of Defence continually fails to learn from its mistakes, the Commons spending watchdog has said. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has published a highly critical report accusing the department of having a “broken” system for procuring military equipment. The cross-party committee said it…


Alabama Health Official Says 65,000 Vaccine Doses Have Gone to Waste

Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said Friday that 65,511 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 have gone to waste in the state as it grapples with a surge in cases and seeks to boost vaccine uptake. At a briefing Friday, Harris said the Alabama Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 daily case graph is “almost vertical…


Teen Sets up Company to Turn Waste Plastics Into Revolutionary Product: ‘Beyond Grateful’

An industrious Canadian teen has put his money where his mouth is when it comes to plastic waste. Pooling savings from three jobs, he started a company that turns post-consumer plastics destined for landfill into affordable building materials—thereby, offering a revolutionary in-house solution to the pileup of waste plastic, filling “the role of Chinese recyclers” after…


Looming Solar Panel Waste Tsunami Reveals Dark Side of Renewables: Expert

Environmental policy expert Michael Shellenberger told NTD’s “The Nation Speaks” that the economics of solar panel production, deployment, and recycling shows that the technology has a “toxic” and “dangerous” dimension while its advocacy is driven by ideological leanings, rather than sound science. “We’ve been in a sort of hypnotic trance,” Shellenberger said, referring to what he…