Proposed energy tax provokes debate in USA
Even as the Clinton administration seeks to phase in a tax on gas, oil, coal and nuclear energy, oil companies complain the levy will damage economic recovery and endanger jobs.
Even as the Clinton administration seeks to phase in a tax on gas, oil, coal and nuclear energy, oil companies complain the levy will damage economic recovery and endanger jobs.
Gerald Leach is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute SEI in London. He has written extensively on rural energy issues in developing countries at the SEI and earlier at the International Institute of Environment and Development
30/12/1994
Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites
Though the government boasts its improved chulha project has exceeded targets, officials admit the programme has been a failure because of lack user acceptance.
30/01/1994
Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness
29/06/1995
Get eight economists to discuss an issue and you"ll get nine opinions. Down to Earth did precisely that. Eight noted economists were invited, along with a scientist-activist, an industrialist, a bureaucrat and two educationists, to analyse the impact