Wednesday, September 08, 2010

School Named After Al Gore Was Built on Toxic Soil - ABC News
Kalee Kreider, Gore's spokeswoman, said the office had no comment.
Supporter of California climate law wants to debate oil company CEO who is trying to undo it | Markets | Market News | Canadian Business Online
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Supporters of California's global warming law said Tuesday that they want a debate with one of the Texas oil companies that is bankrolling the effort to undermine the legislation on the November ballot.

San Francisco investment banker Thomas Steyer said in a letter to Valero Energy Corp. Chairman and CEO William Klesse that the two should argue the merits of suspending AB32 because they are the two top donors supporting and opposing the law.
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Steyer, a manager of Farallon Capital Management L.L.C. and a longtime Democratic donor, has contributed $2.5 million so far in an attempt to defeat the initiative.
“RECONSTRUCTING” CLIMATE CHANGE « 21st Century Wire
“The IPCC may therefore be allowed to die a timely death. Its budgets can be cut or frozen, and its transition to the added status of becoming a full-blown UN agency pushed further back…“

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