Shopfloor » Blog Archive » Coal, Carbon Sequestration and NUMBY

A reasonably thorough piece in today’s Washington Post, “Coal’s Future Wagered on Carbon Capture.” Might have benefited from more discussion of the political debate about whether carbon dioxide emissions should be controlled...

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama: We’ll tackle immigration in 2010

At first, the White House announcement that they would push for immigration reform in 2010 seemed very counterintuitive. After all, Barack Obama’s health-care reform package has stalled in Congress and split his party along ideological grounds, and unified the Republicans against the White House. Obama also has his cap-and-trade package stuck between the House and Senate, which has split the Democrats on regional as well as ideological grounds and probably won’t get through the Senate this year, if at all. Isn’t it crazy to follow those with another highly divisive political issue, certain to raise voices and blood pressure in town halls across America?