James Tate, Ph.D., Director of the Institute's Center for Environmental Economics and Ethics, is closely monitoring developments in the BP oil spill.  In comments to The Boston Globe, Dr. Tate notes that we should have been better prepared for such a disaster.  Dr. Tate is a former Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior and a noted naturalist who says all the ramifications of the spill are almost impossible to predict, even as the crisis is already wreaking serious environmental damage.  Click here to read the article in The Boston Globe.