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BREAKING!
Al Gore still not running for president ready to accept a job in a presidential administration. We’ll keep you updated on new developments in Gore’s unwavering, years-long refusal to get back in government as they unfold!
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NYT columnist makes a late bid for dumbest paragraph of the year
It’s widely agreed that Bill Kristol’s tenure as a New York Times op-ed columnist has been a fiasco — not for Kristol, whose flat-footed, me-too hackery is old news, but for the Gray Lady, who showed the extraordinary bad judgment to pick him. Most of Kristol’s stuff is instantly forgettable, but yesterday brought what I […]
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Christie Todd Whitman
I got a bit lost in the rush, but I hope everyone got a chance to read Jonathan Hiskes’ interview with Christie Todd Whitman on Friday.
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Scientists call for cleanup of Chesapeake Bay
Marking the 25th anniversary of a pact between local, state, and federal agencies to clean up Chesapeake Bay near Washington, D.C., a group of scientists on Monday called for a brand new plan to save the fragile area, arguing that the largely voluntary $6 billion plan now in place has done little to solve the […]
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Canadian oil sands projects polluting aquifers, report says
The massive, energy-intensive oil sands projects in Alberta, Canada, are leaking some 2.9 million gallons of contaminated water each day into the region’s aquifers, according to a new report by Environmental Defense and Pembina Consulting based on the industry’s own estimates. “Virtually everyone close to the tar sands industry knows that all tar sands tailings […]
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Memo to President-elect Barack Obama on democratizing the energy system
Dear President-elect Obama, Congratulations on your historic election. Now the truly heavy lifting begins. You have declared your intention to make "a new energy economy" your "No. 1 priority." We urge you to follow a path that leads not only to changes in the fuels underpinning our energy system but also to changes in the […]
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Praying for a bailout in Detroit
Lordy: Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary’s wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congregants in a boisterous rendition of the gospel singer Myrna Summers’s “We’re Gonna Make It” as hundreds of worshipers who work in the automotive industry — union assemblers, […]
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Stephen Johnson defends Bush as ‘pro-environmental’
“The president is really a very pro-environmental person. When we first talked, he used the phrase which is precisely, philosophically, where I’ve always been at EPA. He said, ‘Steve, I want you to accelerate the pace of environmental protection while maintaining our nation’s economic competitiveness.'” — Stephen Johnson, EPA administrator
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Draft bailout deal calls for ‘car czar,’ ban on lawsuits challenging emissions standards
Congressional Democrats and the White House appear to have reached a deal on a $15 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, one that includes a ban on lawsuits challenging California’s greenhouse gas emission standards and a call for a “car czar” to oversee the rescue efforts. “The terms of any financial assistance under this […]
