Carroll: Carbon cutting pipe dreams - The Denver Post

...there is a growing lobby for micromanaging nearly "every aspect of our lives" in the crusade to reduce carbon output.

That lobby could get away with it, too, unless we begin to inject some reality into the discussion regarding what we should be trying to achieve.

GE's Jeff Immelt Fights Back | NewsBusters.org

...it seems that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, whom one would think has better things to do, was so upset that three shareholders -- Deneen Borelli, Jesse Watters and Tom Borelli -- would ask him questions about the GE-owned networks' liberal bias, trade with Iran and lobbying for cap-and-trade that he ordered retaliation against a news media outlet that reported they had done so.

Specifically, the LA Weekly's Nicki Finke's Deadline Hollywood column is reporting tonight that after Paul Bond of The Hollywood Reporter wrote a story about the three questions and the shareholder's meeting (a story immediately picked up by the Drudge Report), Immelt immediately ordered a GE-wide ban on Nielsen Business Media, which owns The Hollywood Reporter.
...
Maybe someday he'll figure out that if he cleans up his networks and starts running GE like a capitalist firm instead of as a welfare queen-wannabe, he can get the criticism he hates so much to stop.