Tag Archives: environmental issues

NSDA Nationals IX R&D from Prepd: Environmental Issues

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Logan Scisco

Today’s R&D is brought to you by Prepd (pronounced “prepped”). Prepd is building debate technology that helps extempers and congressional debaters research, practice, and compete. Visit www.prepd.in to learn more. Over the next month and a half, Extemp Central will provide R&Ds … Continue reading →

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R&D from Prepd: Environment & Energy

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Logan Scisco

Today’s R&D is brought to you by Prepd (pronounced “prepped”). Prepd is building debate technology that helps extempers and congressional debaters research, practice, and compete. Visit www.prepd.in to learn more. As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate … Continue reading →

Posted in R&D, U.S. Extemp | Tagged energy, environmental issues, R&D, U.S. energy, U.S. environment | Comments Off

The Flint Water Crisis

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Logan Scisco

[fblike] While Americans take clean drinking water for granted, the residents of Flint, Michigan currently lack such a luxury. The failure of state and federal environmental officials has placed the city’s residents at risk for lead poisoning as a result … Continue reading →

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R&D: The Flint Water Crisis

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Logan Scisco

[fblike] Here is today’s premium R&D to accompany today’s premium topic brief on the Flint water crisis. Who’s ultimately to blame for the lead-water crisis in Flint? https://t.co/30sqIiio6E pic.twitter.com/xE4E3jp3Ic — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 22, 2016 Gov. Rick Snyder gets bad marks nationally … Continue reading →

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Poaching & Global Wildlife Conservation

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Logan Scisco

[fblike] Although environmental and animal rights activists have advocated for stronger anti-poaching efforts for the last several decades, their efforts never attracted sustained media attention outside of a few notable campaigns during the late 1980s and various periods throughout the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged African issues, Cecil the Lion, environmental issues, poaching, premium content, Topic Brief | Comments Off

R&D: Poaching & Global Wildlife Conservation

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Logan Scisco

[fblike] Here is today’s premium R&D to accompany today’s premium topic brief on poaching and global wildlife conservation. Delta bans the transport of hunting trophies after killing of Cecil the Lion http://t.co/WPW8XLsjGg pic.twitter.com/ztROrgf0u2 — The New York Times (@nytimes) August 3, 2015 … Continue reading →

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CFL R&D Part One: U.S. Politics, World Environmental Issues, and International Areas in Conflict

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Logan Scisco

Here is a special CFL R&D that provides articles for three of the nine CFL extemp topic areas. The second CFL R&D will come out tomorrow evening. U.S. Politics Daniels Decides Against Presidential Run from the Wall Street Journal Indiana … Continue reading →

Posted in R&D | Tagged 2012 presidential election, Afghanistan, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Arctic, Australia, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, environment, environmental issues, EU, European Union, Food, global warming, Great Britain, Iowa caucus, Iraq, Iraq war, Jon Huntsman, Michelle Bachmann, Mitch Daniels, New York House election, NY-26 election, oil, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, plastic bags, President Obama, R&D, Republican party, Ron Paul, Somalia, Syria, Syrian protests, tea party, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Pakistani relations, U.S.-Yemeni relations, World Food Program, Yemen | Comments Off

R&D: The Right to Protect Doctrine Returns, Water Issues Worry Americans Most, and Is America Protecting French Interests in Libya?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Logan Scisco

Here is your R&D for March 28th: How Libya’s Qaddafi brought humanitarian intervention back in vogue from the Christian Science Monitor Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi has resurrected the international doctrine of the “right to protect”, which some analysts thought was a … Continue reading →

Posted in R&D | Tagged environmental issues, France, Hugo Chavez, Libya, Libyan war, Moammar Gaddafi, R&D, right to protect, Syria, Syrian protests, top five news stories, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-French relations, Venezuela, water | Comments Off