Obama Still Can Save His Presidency | Newgeography.com

The key rule of Chicago politics is delivering the spoils to supporters, and Obama's stimulus program essentially fills this prescription. The stimulus's biggest winners are such core backers as public employees, universities and rent-seeking businesses who leverage their access to government largesse, mostly by investing in nominally "green" industries.

Paging Don Quixote: Spain’s New Wind-Power Record - Environmental Capital - WSJ

In any event, Spain’s big push in wind power hasn’t enabled it to clean up its economy and meet all of its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol; the country has one of the worst compliance records in Europe. On Monday, Spain agreed to buy Poland’s excess greenhouse-gas emissions permits for $37 million.

Japan builds technology to bury greenhouse gas emissions - Telegraph

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.

carbon dioxide: Definition from Answers.com

A colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO2, formed during respiration, combustion, and organic decomposition and used in food refrigeration, carbonated beverages, inert atmospheres, fire extinguishers, and aerosols.

Climate bill's 'emergency provision' gives Obama strong-man powers | Washington Examiner

So it must be asked: Would the president be empowered to do things like nationalize whole sectors of industry, ban coal use, restrict private automobile use, or whatever else the “emergency” requires?