EU plans probe of US bioethanol subsidies-diplomats | Reuters

(Reuters) - The European Union's trade authority plans to start an investigation into whether U.S. bioethanol exporters are receiving unfair state subsidies and selling their fuel to Europe at illegally low prices, diplomats said on Tuesday.

Duke Energy CEO Rogers Wants Taxpayer Bailout for Edwardsport Boondoggle | National Legal and Policy Center

It's crony capitalism on steroids, and it's out of control.

Coke’s Polar Bear Campaign Funds WWF Disinformation | National Legal and Policy Center

Meanwhile Roberts and staff belch those habitat-killing emissions into the atmosphere with their frequent flier miles. From Fiscal-Year 2007 through 2009, WWF-U.S. and WWF-Canada spent $18.8 million on travel for staff and donors, according to tax returns available on Guidestar. There’s no telling how much was spent for airplanes at WWF’s 46 chapters in other nations. That’s the kind of polar bear protection that Coca-Cola and its customers are paying for with their holiday promotion.

Has global warming become a campaign issue? - Weepy Bill -  Salon.com

For one thing, global warming denial has seen its apogee. 
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Still, scientific studies only reach a certain audience. Weird weather is a far more powerful messenger. It’s been hard to miss the record flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and across the Northeast; the record drought and fires across the Southwest; the record multi-billion dollar weather disasters across the country this year; the record pretty-much everything-you-don’t-want across the nation. Obama certainly noticed. He’s responsible for finding the cash every time some other state submerges.

FP Letters to the Editor: Cleaning up a natural disaster | FP Comment | Financial Post

Greenpeace and others have one fact correct: The oil sands are a disaster. What they miss is that it is a “natural” disaster, nature basically having placed a trillion barrels of thick oil on or near the surface of the Athabasca region, where it oozes out of the ground and seeps into rivers.

Oil sands operations, especially the surface mines, are actually the largest, most expensive environmental cleanup in the history of the planet, with hundreds of billions of dollars invested.