Friday, December 09, 2011

The Cost of Climate Inaction: Extreme Weather Causes Billions in Damage | The Energy Collective

Taken together, extreme events have cost our country at least $53 billion this year. Compare that with an average of $18 billion a year in the 1980s, when our atmosphere contained far less carbon pollution than it does now.

Frito-Lay/PepsiCo Cashes in On Electric Truck Subsidies | National Legal and Policy Center

While it is certainly true the electric trucks (ETs) are more expensive, that doesn’t mean Frito-Lay is footing the bill for them. Yes, astute NLPC reader, you’ve figured out who's covering the bill: taxpayers. 

Biggest Polluters Hold Up Deal at UN Global Warming Talks - Businessweek

“The climate change effects we’re experiencing in Lesotho and other countries are a matter of life or death because we don’t have the safety nets that the developed world has,” Manete Ramaili, the southern African nation’s environment minister, said in an interview. “We have to have binding targets. It’s a must.”

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