Monday, March 08, 2010

[We're saved!]: Amateur gardeners urged to use peat-free compost to cut carbon footprint - Telegraph
Amateur gardeners are being urged to switch to peat-free compost and grow bags as part of efforts to cut the UK's carbon footprint.
Mr. Hatoyama's Climate Headache - WSJ.com
A revealing fight on cap-and-trade unfolds in Tokyo.
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Politicians the world over are developing cases of cold feet on expensive global-warming pledges. Now reality is sinking in even in Japan.
Van Jones: “Will all Americans have a fair shot at America’s fair share?” « Climate Progress
Will it be big enough and strong enough to avoid eco-apocalypse anyway? There’s a robust policy discussion about this, it’s called Copenhagen, it’s called cap and trade. . .
Congress should do the right thing — nothing | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
The same ethical advice for doctors also makes sense for Congress as it considers several pending global warming bills – first do no harm. Given serious questions about global warming science as well as the efficacy of costly proposals to address it, the best choice for Washington is none of the above.
Barton, Burgess Ask Administration to Detail Costs of NEPA Rule to Jobs, Economy
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, today wrote to Nancy Sutley, the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, asking her to square President Obama’s statement that “jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010” with the expansion of a wide range of global warming and other environmental regulations that will cumulatively impose billions of dollars in costs on U.S. business and consumers.

2 comments:

dearieme said...

Wotcha mean "even in Japan"?

Anonymous said...

Communist spouting fair shot at fair share. Sounds a whole lot like Stalin's May Day refrain of "peace, jobs and democracy". You chanted that while on the one way trip to Siberia's gulags.