Italy asks to renegotiate EU carbon quota

BRUSSELS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has written to the European Commission asking to renegotiate the caps on his country's carbon dioxide emissions, an Italian government official said on Thursday.

What’s Next? Two-Ply Need Not Apply » The Foundry

First they came for your car. Then for your cheeseburger. Now those crazy environmentalists want to control how you wipe. No really....

A Crop-Land Cap? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Among limits, they suggested capping the percentage of global land area converted to cropland at 15 percent. At the moment, the percentage is 11.7 percent, they said.

Sorry, Third World. I know your populations are hungry, but we're just not allowed to grow more food. When you starve to death, please do so in a carbon-neutral manner. Thank you!

Today’s Calamity: Cap and Trade Destroys Jobs and Destroys Wealth » The Foundry

Reporters asked Chu if he though the green movement would generate the townhall pushback the health care debate and he responded, “I don’t think so…maybe I’m optimistic, but there’s very little debate” that a new green energy economy will bring economic prosperity.