Exclusive: Fannie regulator digs in on clean-energy opposition | Grist

The Federal Housing Finance Agency solidified its opposition to the home-greening program Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in a letter to members of Congress Thursday, telling them it doesn't see a way to let the program move forward.

Maine Voices: Climate change caused by humans? That’s a highly disputable claim | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

A generation from now, people will all see how we today were misled by scientists and journalists who pursued an agenda. It ended up by starving prosperous countries of needed energy supplies. A whole generation suffered unnecessarily from a sort of mass hysteria.

Science has been corrupted. That’s nothing new, but perhaps never before has it happened on the present scale.

Australia: Trillion-dollar climate question

Less far-fetched coalitions could be shattered by outgoing climate sceptic Steve Fielding anyway. Stranger things have happened. So we wait and ponder the all-powerful independents.

Rubio: Stimulus failed, repeal health bill - TheHill.com

He also said policy proposals such as cap-and-trade and card check have made employers think twice about adding to their payrolls.

No more ethanol for America, please - The Hill's Congress Blog

Nussle goes onto praise the environmental benefits of ethanol. In reality, the environmental benefits are marginal, and come at an enormous cost. The Congressional Budget Office found that reducing greenhouse gas emissions through biofuel tax credits would cost taxpayers approximately $750 per metric ton of carbon dioxide. This analysis does not include any indirect land-use effects, nor does it consider the suspected effects that excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers has had on the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem.

Barack Obama's holiday entourage | Mail Online

Just popping to the shops for some light reading in the Massachusetts town proved a logistical headache for minders who made up part of a 20-vehicle motorcade.
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Earlier in the trip, the couple and daughters Malia, 12 and Sasha, nine, arrived by Air Force One which has armour-plated wings allegedly capable of withstanding a nuclear blast from the ground.

They then transferred to presidential helicopter Marine One, preceded by a police helicopter which swept the across the island.