Fallout Shelter: Team Obama Seeks to Limit Reach of CO2 [Hoax] Ruling - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The Obama administration is studying ways to limit the reach of any greenhouse-gas regulations it might eventually set to large industrial sources, such as power plants and factories, rather than small businesses.

The move could help the administration limit the political and legal fallout of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision in April to declare greenhouse gases a threat to public health.

NY requires life jackets for cold weather boating - BostonHerald.com

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York has become the first state to require life jackets for everyone in all small pleasure craft during the six coldest months of the year, when capsized boaters drown faster in chilly water.

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GRASSLEY: Well, I had four town meetings two weeks ago and 12 town meetings last week. And every meeting I had, if the cap-and-trade issue came up -- and I'd say it came up in more than half of my town meetings -- I heard from agriculture there was complete opposition.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : When the merits just won't do

Now, for their other Big Idea, "cap-and-trade" - which effectively moves another one-sixth of the economy under state control - the cry from Senate Democratic leadership, specifically Majority Whip Dick Durbin (IL), is Senate Majority to Bloomberg Television, "The president has urged us to do this so that we'll have credibility at Copenhagen," referencing the December confab at which the U.S. is expected to sign a Kyoto II treaty.

So much for that "end of the world!" thingy, I guess. We've got a conference to show Europeans Obama's not George Bush, standing up for sovereignty and energy security and other whimsies.

AFP: French carbon tax debate turns toxic for Sarkozy

PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan for a carbon tax on fuel threatened Tuesday to backfire as critics slammed it as unfair and his own camp fretted it will anger voters already hit by the crisis.