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Has CBS found dumbest idea yet for an online poll?
Yeah, please vote here. Pointedly ignoring my plea for an end to online polls, CBS has come up with perhaps the dumbest idea yet. Let’s use the least scientific, most easily manipulated choosing scheme invented since eeny-meeny-miny-moe to pick what major piece of legislation president Obama should pursue next. Seriously. I can almost hear Walter Cronkite reading the […]
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Honey, I shrunk the GOP, Part 5: So much for the American Enterprise Institute being a "think" tank
Sure the American Enterprise Institute is stillcrazy with climate denial and delay after all these years. And sure it recently compared EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Clint Eastwood and carbon polluters to criminals. But it always retained the semblance of a serious think tank. Heck, back in October, Steven F. Hayward, “the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fellow […]
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Quiz — Who said this?
Who said: “Continuous research by our best scientists is the key to American scientific leadership and true national security. This indispensable work may be made impossible by the creation of an atmosphere in which no man feels safe against the public airing of unfounded rumors, gossip, and vilification”? If you want a hint, the very […]
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Dems more trusted on energy than any other issue, continue pursuing polluter-friendly GOP ideas
In new polling focused primarily on healthcare, Washington Post-ABC asked the following question: Which political party, the (Democrats) or the (Republicans), do you trust to do a better job handling (ITEM)? Here are the results: Democrats Republicans The Economy 44 36 Health Care 47 34 Immigration Issues 38 35 The Situation in Afghanistan 43 […]
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Palin sticks with ‘drill here, drill now’ in Nevada Tea Party speech
Sarah Palin is sticking with the “Drill here, drill now” slogan/policy position she championed during the 2008 presidential campaign. She dusted off the familiar phrase at a Saturday speech in Nevada for Tea Party activists, calling for more nuclear energy, offshore drilling, and “clean coal” spending. “Congress and those in the White House choose to […]
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Cars won’t get all the love, Ray LaHood says in big bike speech
LaHood steps up at the National Bike Summit on March 11.Courtesy BikePortland via FlickrTwo weeks ago, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood climbed on a table and told a group of bike advocates that federal transportation planners were finished raising the almighty auto above cyclists and walkers. “I’ve been all over America, and where I’ve been in […]
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Who killed cap-and-trade?
In a recent article in the New York Times, John Broder asks “Why did cap-and-trade die?” and responds that “it was done in by the weak economy, the Wall Street meltdown, determined industry opposition and its own complexity.” Mr. Broder’s analysis is concise and insightful, and I recommend it to readers. But I think there’s […]
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How export-focused agriculture has failed everyone it was meant to help
A recent Washington Post article documented the stark reality of Haiti’s non-existent agricultural infrastructure: Decades of inexpensive imports –especially rice from the U.S. — punctuated with abundant aid in various crises have destroyed local agriculture and left impoverished countries such as Haiti unable to feed themselves. …Today Haiti depends on the outside world for nearly […]
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More evidence that Sen. Byrd sees the writing on the wall for coal
Last Friday, the EPA took a significant step toward blocking a Clean Water Act permit for Arch Coal’s Spruce Mine, the largest proposed mountaintop-removal coal mine in West Virginia history. It’s a big deal — see Ken Ward Jr. for more on what it means and what comes next. I just wanted to highlight the […]
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Reminder: the U.S. already has cap-and-trade–in the Northeast
Update below The Center for American Progress offers a reminder that we already have a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions up and running in the U.S.— it’s called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, it operates in 10 northeastern states, and it works fairly well, according to CAP’s new review. Bradford Plumer rounded up the details […]
