Thursday, October 21, 2010

'10 deer hunt will be shorter to stabilize the herds | Deseret News
Utah deer herds have never fully recovered from the extremely harsh winter in the early 1990s.
UK's Carbon Tax Bombshell Takes Business by Surprise | Climate [Scam] | GreenBiz.com
LONDON, United Kingdom — Businesses are coming to terms with the full implications of government plans to keep revenue raised by the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, rather than recycle it to participants in the scheme.
Chamber: Worry about energy regulations, kids - Josh Voorhees - POLITICO.com
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants middle school students to consider what would happen if government regulations shut down the coal industry or another domestic energy source.

The question is part of a teaching guide the group plans to distribute to roughly 100,000 classrooms across the country as part of its “Shedding Light on Energy” program with educational publisher Scholastic Inc.
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Dan Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, suggested the Chamber has ulterior motives. “It sounds like this may be one part education and one part fear-mongering,” Weiss said.

Weiss said he was concerned about a partnership between the Chamber, which is spending millions to defeat Democratic congressional candidates and has opposed federal and state efforts to deal with global warming, and Scholastic, which has a large presence in public schools around the country.

“They’re going to be carrying the message of a very opinionated special interest,” he said. “My guess is Scholastic will not be giving equal time to the Sierra Club.”

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