Friday, August 28, 2009

Claiborne Deming Makes His Case Against Cap-and-Trade Bill - ArkansasBusiness.com
Deming, the former Murphy Oil CEO and chairman of the Murphy Oil Corp. Executive Committee, made his case against cap-and-trade in a presentation that he is taking across the state and hopes will sway Arkansas' U.S. senators to vote against HR 2454, President Obama's American Clean Energy and Security Act that purports to address climate change.
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Deming said the bill was both hypocritical and disingenuous because in addition to potentially crippling the economy, it amounts to a tax and would ultimately have little or no impact on actual climate change.
Senators Spend Recess Fine-Tuning Messages on Cap and Trade [Scam] - NYTimes.com
While a handful of Senate staffers spent the August recess sequestered on Capitol Hill writing a giant energy and climate bill, senators who will debate the legislation were speaking at town halls and in the media in efforts to strengthen support -- or opposition -- to the sweeping package.
Can Push for Climate [Hoax] Bill Forge a Lasting Labor-Enviro Alliance? - NYTimes.com
Critics of the House-approved climate bill -- the American Clean Energy and Security Act, sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman (Calif.) and Ed Markey (Mass.) -- doubt the measure will generate scores of jobs. If they're correct, labor's backing for the environmentalists' agenda will crumble, said Kenneth Green, a resident scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

"Despite all the happy talk from the environmentalists, Waxman-Markey is going to cost a lot of jobs, and those will be union jobs that will be outsourced to other countries," Green said. "When the unions see the results of this collaboration in a couple of years, they will be more cautious about collaborating."
Meat Industry Tries to Turn Itself Green | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com
The more ambitious projects involve tinkering with the cow's genetic code. Researchers at the University of Alberta are examining the DNA in cows' four stomachs to identify the genes responsible for making them burp and regulating how much gas they produce. In time, they hope to be able to breed cleaner cows, which could reduce emissions from cows by 25 percent, says Stephen Moore, professor of beef-cattle genomics at Alberta.

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