Barbara Boxer is leading a call for the Lieberman-Warner Climate InSecurity Act. This bill has many challenges, but most serious — the one that would lead me to vote NO! — is the huge amount of permits to pollute given away for free. Can we say $Trillion+ with a Capital T?
Senator Clinton (to be differentiated [...]
Hillary stands up for the Globe: Who will join her?
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Global Warming · emissions · government energy policy · lieberman-warner · politics
S-CHIPing Energy: Time for Action!
December 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments
The Democratic Party controlled Congress is attacked for inaction. Inaction in the face of Republicans who are not interested in seeing movement forward. Inaction in the face of a President who seems intent on his belief that “negotiation” is a four-letter word. As Nancy Pelosi put it,
Democrats want to work with the President, yet he [...]
Tags: Congress · Energy · alternative energy · democrats · fuel economy · government energy policy · politics
A spoof we wish had been real …
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Rising Tide, a group of Global Warming (and otherwise) activists, created a fake “US-CAP” site (www.climateactionpartnership.org – since suspended) with a prominent posting of a
spoof press release declaring that the consortium’s members had committed to a 90 percent reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate [...]
Tags: Global Warming · emissions