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Unlikely allies advance global warming policy: Environmentalists join industry, and both see progress
The Boston Globe 08.22.07
WASHINGTON — Pushed by an unlikely partnership of corporate leaders and environmentalists, the White House and Congress are now grappling with decisions on global warming unimaginable only a year ago, including whether to implement tough fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, require utilities to buy power from renewable sources, or mandate cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Cap and trade has us off to a good start
The Wall Street Journal 08.22.07
In his Aug. 13 State of the Union column, “Cap and Blockade1,” Julian Morris makes a number of assertions about the carbon market which miss the point:
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Filthy machines live on
The Boston Globe 08.21.07
No one ever said curbing greenhouse gases globally was going to be easy. But an article in Sunday’s Globe showed just how thorny the issue can be. Reporter Beth Daley detailed how outdated and polluting US industrial equipment and vehicles are being recycled for use in developing countries. Companies and governments in such countries see the secondhand power plants, buses, and trucks as a bargain and have little if any incentive to worry about their carbon dioxide emissions.
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Fueling the push for a better car
The American Conservative 08.20.07
Today’s modern technology would doubtless awe the people whose pioneering work made it possible. If Alexander Graham Bell flipped open a cell phone or Philo T. Farnsworth watched a high-def television, they’d be dumbfounded. Technology has taken their relatively crude inventions and made them immeasurably better.
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