Bob Novak is an institution. He’s earned his reporting stripes and his conservative credentials, even as he’s earned a certain dismissiveness from younger mainstream reporters in Washington. Today, I’ve got a bone to pick with the PoD.
Today Novak creams Gov. Mike Huckabee and takes a moment to attack cap and trade. I’m not here [...]
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Nine Midwestern governors have signed an agreement to work together to conserve energy consumption and limit greenhouse gases. The pact came today in Milwaukee, at a regional summit on energy and climate change.
The agreement calls for focusing on capping carbon, renewable energy and increasing production of bio-fuels. Although the Midwest has 22 percent of the [...]
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Next month, world leaders will gather in Bali, Indonesia, for a summit aimed at creating a framework for a successor to the Kyoto protocol. Among the U.S. politicians who will be in attendance are Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, who also chairs the Senate Environment Committee. Whether or not Kerry and Boxer decide to support a Kyoto-style agreement this time (after both of them opposed the original Kyoto Protocol) remains to be seen.
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Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez went all the way to the Middle East to deliver his latest anti-U.S. rants. His first stop was the OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia where he urged those gathered to fight against American “imperialism.” Be sure to read Jackson’s Diehl’s truth-telling in the Washington Post. It’s about Chavez’s efforts [...]
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Fred Krupp has been named one of U.S. News and World Report’s “America Best Leaders for 2007”. Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense, one of the sponsors of this blog. More notable is what Krupp is praised for:
The signature achievement of Krupp’s philosophy came out of amendments to the Clean Air Act [...]
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There’s an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about “green” companies having an advantage when it comes to recruiting young employees. Here at Terra Rossa, we’ve talked a lot about using competition and market forces to bring about new energy technologies and promote a healthier environment, and this article seems like the flip-side [...]
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The threat to America’s security posed by our foreign fuel addiction is real. What you pay at the pump is funding some very bad actors, as shown in the excellent but downright scary article on this subject by Steve Mufson in Saturday’s Washington Post.
If the headline alone isn’t enough to shake us out of our [...]
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In case you missed it, the Rev. Pat Robertson recently commented on the climate debate in Washington, DC and cap and trade in particular. An acquaintance forwarded me this YouTube video of what he said.
It’s a reminder that a growing number of conservatives recognize we need an approach to environmental stewardship that doesn’t rely [...]
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A few weeks ago in this space, I said that if Congressional Republicans don’t start working towards a solution on the dual issues of carbon emissions and climate change, they could become a new endangered species in the face of next year’s elections. Our recent survey of voters in swing districts across the country confirms [...]
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As millions of Americans sat down Sunday with a plate of hot wings and a cold beer to follow the day’s NFL action, NBC treated us to some corporate responsibility overkill. Portions of NBC’s halftime show were done in the dark! One of the more caustic commentaries laments Bob Costas’s apology for the use [...]
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In an interesting turn on November Sweeps, NBC has decided to use this week to promote an eco-friendly message. The “Green is Universal” campaign features green-themed shows including The Office, 30 Rock and Days of Our Lives. You’ll have to stay tuned to see how the ratings play out.
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