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Louisiana Senator getting no love from enviros in her reelection bid
Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who’s seeking reelection for a third term, is the only Democrat to make the League of Conservation Voters’ “Dirty Dozen” list this year. LCV has given her a lifetime score of 44 percent and says she’s “the worst Democrat in the Senate on environmental issues currently running for reelection.” Environmentalists […]
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Longest-serving Republican in Senate found guilty of concealing gifts on disclosure forms
Jurors have convicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens of lying on Senate disclosure forms in order to conceal home renovations and other gifts he received from the oil-field engineering firm VECO Corp. and its CEO. Stevens was found guilty on all of seven counts against him and now faces up to five years in prison on […]
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Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens found guilty on corruption charges
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has been found guilty on seven counts of lying about free house renovations and gifts received from an oil-contractor friend between 1999 and 2006. The impact on Stevens’ reelection race against Democrat Mark Begich remains to be seen. Stevens, going strong at age 84, is the longest-serving Republican in the Senate.
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Obama pitches green to 100K
“If I am president, I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new, green jobs over the next decade — jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and fuel-efficient cars; jobs that will help us end our dependence on […]
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SUV owners prefer McCain, while hybrid drivers are rooting for Obama, research finds
The kind of car you drive is related to your preference for presidential candidate, according to new research from Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research. McCain leads among owners of full-size trucks and SUVs, luxury cars, and luxury SUVs. Obama leads among those who drive imports, station wagons, hatchbacks, and hybrids. “McCain’s appeal among owners […]
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Bush admin to try to push through rule allowing more power-plant pollution
According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. EPA aims to finalize by next week controversial rules allowing power plants to emit more pollution overall as long as they reduce their emissions on a per-hour basis.
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World could be fossil-fuel free by 2090, study says
The world could wean itself off fossil fuels entirely by 2090 with trillions of dollars worth of investments in renewable energy and a concerted worldwide push, according to a study by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council.
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Grassley calls McCain out for inconsistency on subsidies
I don’t know if everyone else will find this as hilarious as I do, but here’s a story about Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticizing McCain’s energy positions as “inconsistent.” You see, McCain opposes ethanol subsidies because he thinks subsidies distort markets. But he supports massive subsidies for nuclear. So, is Grassley’s point that McCain should […]
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NYC City Council gives OK for Bloomberg to run for third term
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) — who’s pushed an aggressive green agenda — will be able to run for a third four-year term next year, thanks to a City Council vote last week that changed NYC’s term-limits law.
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A counterpoint on energy independence and Proposition 7
This is a response to this post about California’s Proposition 7 by Adam Browning. —– Al Gore has outdone himself. Think what you will of him, you can’t say he doesn’t have a vision. On July 17, he called for the nation to embark on a man-on-the-moon effort to achieve 100 percent “renewable and other […]
