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On the year ahead for greens
The folks at Tom Paine asked me to write a piece on a green agenda for the coming year. I tried to tackle three points: We’re in a chaotic, transitional period on energy and environmental issues. Circumstances are uniquely aligned for green progress. Several economically powerful and politically connected interests will be trying to take […]
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Fails
Whereas Tony Blair just makes me feel vaguely sad, the British press never fails to delight me. No pretense of objectivity here, no sir.
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About climate change, that is
After years of having any mention of anthropogenic climate change purged from press releases and public statements, NOAA public affairs officials express shock that the agency has finally stated the obvious.
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U.S. automakers don’t know what all the climate change fuss is about
In public, American automakers are trying to put on a chipper new green face. In private: Chrysler’s chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched a fierce attack on “quasi-hysterical Europeans” and their “Chicken Little” attitudes to global warming. … Mr Jolissaint was speaking at a private breakfast where the chief economists of the “Big Three” US […]
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A new NYT blog about oil
The New York Times has a new blog about oil called Pipeline. Sadly, it’s behind the $elect pay wall, so most of you will never get to read it. Here’s a bit from the first post: In Nigeria, stolen oil is accelerating decades-old conflicts by bringing together the poor, the thugs and the powerful. For […]
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Dude, You’re Gettin’ a Conscience
PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives Amidst the energy-sucking glitz of Las Vegas, PC magnate Michael Dell announced that his eponymous company is greening up, and encouraged others to follow suit. Dell addressed two green-itiatives at an International Consumer Electronics Show speech yesterday. The first, a new partnership with carbon-offset provider Carbonfund, will […]
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Anything You Can Ban, I Can Unban Better
Bush opens Alaska’s 5.6-million-acre Bristol Bay to drilling Just a few days after a bipartisan push to ban drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge made headlines, the U.S. Driller-in-Chief lifted a ban on resource extraction in Alaska’s 5.6-million-acre Bristol Bay. Playing the energy-security card, President Bush is raising hackles left and right: The bay […]
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Flexing His OPECs
Schwarzenegger, E.U. unveil new carbon-cutting schemes California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) may be hobbled by a broken leg, but his mind is still strong. (File that under Sentences We Never Thought We’d Write.) In his State of the State address last night, the green-leaning Governator announced a plan to cut carbon in transportation fuel 10 […]
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Ex-Interior secretary may be facing jail time
First the good news: the Justice department recently had a sit-down with erstwhile mining lobbyist and ex-Interior deputy Stephen Griles and outlined the federal criminal charges he faces.
Presumably they also brought photos of his potential future roommate, Bubba, in an effort to get him to flip on his former boss, Gale Norton.
Now for the better news:
