Steel Importers Fight ‘Cap and Trade’ in Senate | Journal of Commerce

So-called “cap and trade” legislation passed in the House and pending in the Senate has “created a new threat to American manufacturing,” the president of the American Institute for International Steel said Tuesday.

David Phelps, president of the AIIS, which represents steel importers and exporters, said HR 2454, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, “would increase the costs of making steel, increase the cost of transporting steel and increase the cost to run our customers’ facilities.”

Phelps urged the Senate to “kill this ill-conceived and ill-timed legislation. It is not time to pass a new vast regressive tax on the American people, struggling to keep their jobs during the recession.”

Deficits will soar without Carbon Tax: MoF

ISLAMABAD: The finance ministry, cautiously reacting to the Supreme Court decision, has hinted at considering the option of harsh taxation measures to maintain financial discipline in case the Rs122 billion carbon tax is completely withdrawn.

‘We do not have any plan B to generate revenue for keeping budget deficit at 4.9 per cent by end of June 2010 without this levy, which was projected on the assumption of generating this revenue from the carbon tax,’ said State Minister for Finance Hina Rabani Khar while talking to Dawn after the Supreme Court’s decision.

RALPH MUECKE  - North Dakota News - Bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing

As you should know by now, The U.S. House passed HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Better known as the cap and trade bill.

This disastrous and dangerous bill is truly a wolf in sheep's clothing. It supposedly addresses the problem of man-made global warming, which is one of the biggest hoaxes ever conceived. Another one is that greenhouse gases are supposedly created by cows passing gas. Still another is that carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere causes global warming. Everything living thing inhales oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide, otherwise we couldn't exist. Next they will tell us that we should have more abortions and use euthanasia to cut down the population so there are fewer of us exhaling carbon dioxide.

Epoch Times - [Uneducated women welcome spring, instead of bemoaning the kidney stones they'll probably get]

Story-based dance is one of Shen Yun’s trademarks, and in the dance Welcoming Spring, the women use fans that open like flowers blossoming to celebrate a new season after suffering a long, harsh winter.