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Sad sentences can say so much
“The Federal Highway Administration has approved Utah’s plan for a Mountain View freeway — if the state can afford it.” — “Freeway gets greenlight from the feds,” Salt Lake Tribune
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NASA against offshore drilling
“It just makes it more difficult to fly. For safety reasons, we don’t want to be flying rockets anywhere near these things.” — Keith Koehler, public affairs specialist for the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, explaining NASA’s opposition to offshore drilling rigs off the Virginia coast
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Obama’s energy and environment adviser on 2009
“Enjoy the holiday season … and rest up because it’s going to be a very, very busy 2009.” — Jason Grumet, environment and energy adviser to Barack Obama, speaking at a conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday
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Is defending an industry against modernity really good for it?
“The auto industry declined while [Dingell] was chairman, ranking member and chairman again. He said we should do nothing to modernize the auto industry. That kind of protection is why we lost out to the Japanese and why Detroit chose the wrong kind of cars to make.” — an unnamed “aide to a [Henry] Waxman […]
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Schwarzenegger on the environment and the state of his party
“Let’s clean our ocean, let’s clean our water, let’s clean our air, let’s create health care reform, let’s pass the budget, let’s fix the budget deficit and the structural deficit. All of those things. And to me, when I look at those issues, I don’t look at them as Republican issues or Democratic issues. I […]
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Brother, can you spare a country?
“We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades.” — Mohamed Nasheed, newly elected president of the Maldives, on a plan to use tourism revenue to buy a new homeland, since climate change-driven sea-level rise is expected to swallow the current […]
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Obama brings California dreaming
“Now we’ll get our phone calls returned.” — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, on what effect an Obama presidency would have on California, possibly including approval of the state’s tailpipe standards and big green energy investments that would boost Silicon Valley
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Governating Alaska: not as fun when oil revenues are down
“Now we kick in that fiscal conservativeness that needs to be engaged, and we progress this state with $57-a-barrel oil.” — Alaska governor Sarah Palin, commenting on the changed fiscal landscape she’s returned to in her home state
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Nader’s challenge
“Whatever you think of Nader’s jeremiad, it is exceedingly timely. Democrats are on the brink of losing their old excuses for timidity and retreat. If the election produces stronger majorities in Congress and a president who has promised big change, Nader’s analysis will be tested in the clearest terms. For the first time in thirty […]
