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Could Al Gore do an audit on how much carbon was wasted putting on this Global Warming fashion show complete with special delivery icebergs?Monitor-ing the Environment : CJR
The Christian Science Monitor is the second major paper to cut its environment blog since the beginning of the year.UN Webcast today
Wednesday, 10 March 2010Can EPA run a cap-and-trade program? | Grist
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12:30pm Press Conference: Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Robbert Dijkgraaf of the Inter Academy Council (IAC) will brief correspondents on the launch of Independent Review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
There is also a small "d" democratic issue. Controlling America's greenhouse gases will take a massive economy-wide effort and there is a legitimate benefit in having the issue hashed out in the legislature by elected officials. That is not necessarily to say that the legislature will arrive at a better plan than regulators, but a new law passed by Congress and signed by the president would have a have a stronger democratic imprimatur than an EPA regulation.
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