California's 'green' ink-cartridge recycling fails to cut pollution, or costs [The Sacramento Bee, Calif.]

But a Bee investigation, based on more than 100 pages of e-mails and other records, has found that 17 months after it was created, the program has delivered few if any of its promised climate benefits.

Almost from the start it ran into opposition from the state's purchasing specialists at the Department of General Services, who were not consulted about it and who -- once they started asking questions -- turned up other concerns, including allegations of unfair competition and ink waste.

A wary Senate may let climate change bill drift | Business | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Environmentalists fret that if the climate change debate slips to 2010, election-year politics could make it much more difficult to pass.

“It's always harder to pass something this controversial and complicated in an even-numbered year,” said DiPeso, the policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection, an environmental advocacy group.

Green Left - Resistance!: Youth demand radical action to stop climate change

The AYCC found that 97.5% of [brainwashed] young people, aged between 12 and 29, voted for emissions reduction targets much higher than proposed by the Rudd government.