Phelim McAleer: "That's the Environmentalists' Attitude: Ban DDT, Let the Black Children Die" : TreeHugger

[Video] Even the half-drunk, disinterested crowd knew to boo him. By shifting to less-polluting energy sources and improving energy efficiency and embracing cleaner technologies, the absolute worst that can happen is populations get healthier air by not being subjected to the byproducts of fossil fuel emissions.

1922: The Arctic Seems To Be Warming Up by Brian Maher

By saving the planet and weaning us off of our pernicious dependence on foreign oil, the administration hopes to skim between $1.3 to $1.9 trillion from the private economy between 2012 and 2019. One suspects the two are not unrelated. A drop in the bucket, but still.

Why Councilman Greig Smith Thinks Villaraigosa's Carbon Surcharge is a Scam - LAist

At yesterday's L.A City Council meeting, Northwest Valley Councilman Greig Smith stood up, raised his voice and let it be known why he would never vote to raise electricity rates via Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's carbon surcharge plan. "The proposal has been hyped as a way to wean the City off of the use of coal-powered electricity, but it does nothing to reduce coal for the first five years," he wrote today in an open letter to the community.

Webb, Cantor support Obama's drilling policy | Culpeper Star-Exponent

Cantor, in addition, continued to express his opposition to a tax on businesses producing carbon emissions.

He said the proposed tax policy, known as cap and trade, would cost jobs “and have devastating effects upon working families … and small businesses, by greatly increasing costs.”